WELL-STOCKED & GILDED CAGE

Five essays on pets a dog, a bird, a tortoise, a ferret, and a chameleon anchor this wild menagerie, exploring childhood spirituality, global positioning systems, wildlife conservation, and climate change. In a wide range of tones and styles, from lyric to visual, photojournalism to collage, THE WELL-STOCKED AND GILDED CAGE swings between Pennsylvania, Nepal, California, Cambodia, Arizona, Myanmar, Delaware, and Bangladesh. From THE WELL-STOCKED AND GILDED CAGE, "Dogsucker: The Oral Exam" was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016, compiled by Jonathan Franzen. Give Me That For Nothing, Now I Am Going Away was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015, compiled by Ariel Levy. Of No Ground: Late Days In the Country of Eighteen Tides, earned Terrain s 6th Annual Creative Nonfiction Award, and the titular essay, The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage, won Prairie Schooner s 2016 Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing."