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Acknowledgments
I owe a great debt to Sarah Gorham and Kristen Miller, my editors at Sarabande Books, as well as to Brian Blair, Sun Yung Shin, and Maya Jewell Zeller, who all gave many helpful notes on these essays in draft form. Further thanks to Heidi Czerwiec, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Rivka Galchen, Angela Hume, Douglas Kearney, Hyejung Kook, Kate Lebo, Polina Malikin, Jenny Molberg, Sarah Nguyen, Sharma Shields, Paul Sturtz, Corinne Teed, Kim Todd, and Holly Vanderhaar for great conversations about and insights into witches and witch trials.
This book is dedicated to my mother, M. Patricia Weber Nuernberger and my sister, Sam Nuernberger, but it is also for my daughter Alice Nuernberger Blair and my grandmothers, Alice Margaret Hornung Nuernberger and Mary Margaret Keyhoe Weber. In memory of Susanne Hornung, sister to Margaret, daughter of Estelle Swederske Hornung, daughter of Maria Hagedorn Wing; Paulina Mink Hornung, sister of Tanta Lena Mink and Josephine Mink; Winifred Plowman Keyhoe, daughter of Mary Murphy Keyhoe, daughter of Bridget McDonald Murphy; Eleanora Higgins Weber, daughter of Anna Maria Janssen Higgins, daughter of Bridget McGowan Higgins. My love for Oliver Nuernberger, Peter Nuernberger, Ken Nuernberger, George Nuernberger, Ernie Weber, and Bill Hornung is here too.
The Institute for Advanced Study at University of Minnesota provided a fellowship that helped make this work possible. I am grateful to my research assistants, Isabella Gold and Matthew Noteboom, for their help fact-checking this book, and to the DFRACS program at University of Minnesota for funding their work.
Thanks also to the journals who first published these essays in their earlier forms.
“Lisbet Nypan”—The Collagist
“Walpurga Hausmännin”—DIAGRAM
“Agnes Waterhouse”—Waxwing
“The Invention of Fire”—Plume
“Two Elizabeths”—Paris Review
“Titiba & the Invention of the Unknown”—Public Domain Review
“Horseshoes”—New Territory
“Hildegard von Bingen”—Hayden’s Ferry Review
“The Aristotles that Never Were”—Cincinnati Review
“Agnes Sampson, the Wise Wife of Keith”—Bat City Review
“The Invention of Familiars”—Brevity
“Maria Gonçalves Cajada & the Invention of Love Spells”—Southern Review
“Medusa”—Guernica
“Angéle de la Barthe”—Meridian
“Bloodroot”—Entropy
“The Long Lost Friend”—Copper Nickel
“The Eye of the Hagstone”—Salamander
“Double Vision”—The Pinch
“The Witch of Eye”—Florida Review
“The Invention of Roses”—Cleaver
“The Invention of Mothers”—Gulf Coast
“Marie Laveau”—Zone 3
“Translations of the Conclusions & Findings Report for Catalina Ouyang as the True Confessions of Johannes Junius” first appeared as a hornbook in Conclusions & Findings, a visual art installation by Catalina Ouyang at the NARS Foundation.
BRIAN BLAIR
KATHRYN NUERNBERGER is the author of the poetry collections Rue, The End of Pink, and Rag & Bone. She has also written the essay collection Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. Her awards include the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and notable essays in the Best American series. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at University of Minnesota.
SARABANDE BOOKS is a nonprofit literary press located in Louisville, KY. Founded in 1994 to champion poetry, short fiction, and essay, we are committed to creating lasting editions that honor exceptional writing. For more information, please visit sarabandebooks.org.
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