Bethany Maile
Bethany Maile is the author of Anything Will Be Easy After This: A Western Identity Crisis, which is forthcoming in fall 2020. Her essays have been notable selections three times in The Best American series, and her work appears or is forthcoming in the Rumpus, the Normal School, Prairie Schooner, and River Teeth, among others. Her essays are anthologized in Essay Daily: A Reader and What Happened on June 21st, 2018. She is writing a memoir about Alaska and motherhood, and she lives in Idaho with her husband and two daughters.
Reading List
What You Get is What You Give
My daughter, at age two, seems allergic to her species. Consider this sample of interactions: A friend, who has known Bernice since her birth, brushes a thumb across my daughter’s cheek, wiping clean a raspberry smear. My mother, visiting us in Alaska where we live, removes Bernice from her car seat. A stranger walking through […]