Gail Konop Baker's work is published or forthcoming in Literary Mama, Talking River Review, The Potomac, Mota, The Danforth Review, Madison Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast, Wisconsin Trails, Xanadu, Wom
Tolstoy, Fitzgerald, Woolf, Salinger, Grace Paley among MANY others
Favorite Books
The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Catcher in the Rye, To the Lighthouse, anything by Grace Paley, selected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Operating Instructions, The Things They Carried, anything by Flannery O'Connor, The Secret History, Interpreter of Maladies, Saturday, Sylvia Plath, John Cheever, The Year of Magical Thinking
What I'm Reading
Crime and Punishment and a thriller by Barry Eisler
After four intense days taking our daughter to college and one day home to wash clothes and then 7 hours up to Madeline Island in Lake Superior and three days of outdoor bliss...
I know the word cancer scares people. It scares me. But that is part of the reason I wrote this memoir, to try to de-stigmatize cancer for other survivors.
my book cover
