The Last Draft

by Sandra Scofield

  Acknowledgments

  I am grateful to the writers who participated in classes and workshops with me over many years at the Iowa Summer Writing Festivals; at the Seattle Pacific University MFA residencies; and in the Pine Manor College Solstice MFA program: for their enthusiasm; for their goodwill and generosity with one another; for their persistence and faith in writing. My life has been enriched by the joy of teaching—and learning—with other writers. And I thank the directors who made it possible for me to teach: Peggy Houston, Amy Margolis, Gregory Wolfe, and Meg Kearney.

  Thanks to my agent and friend, Emma Sweeney, for encouraging me to undertake this project, and to my husband, Bill Ferguson, for holding up under my flood of talk about it over many months. I am thrilled to work with Carole DeSanti, Christopher Russell, and the other magicians at Viking Penguin who make a manuscript into a book.

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