Madeline ffitch writes and organizes in Appalachian Ohio. She was a founding member of the punk theater company, The Missoula Oblongata, and is the author of the story collection, Valparaiso, Round the Horn. Her writing can be found at Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, and Granta. Her first novel, Stay and Fight, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in July 2019. Madeline has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and at the MacDowell Colony.
I could tell that he preferred each and every stranger, even strangers he had not met yet, even strangers he imagined, he preferred those strangers to me.