Molly Beer’s recent work appears in the Pinch, Best Women’s Travel Writing, Salon, Guernica, Copper Nickel, and Vela, among other publications. She is a graduate of Bread Loaf and the University of New Mexico and a former Olive B. O’Connor fellow in creative writing at Colgate University. Over the past decade she has lived in three Latin American countries and four U.S. states, so what she hopes is NOT defunct in this “new economy” is the possibility of a permanent home. Read more at www.mollybeer.net.