EMILY RAPP’s work has appeared in the Clackamas Literary Review, Story Quarterly, and the Texas Observer. She is currently a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her essay in the April 2005 issue is adapted from her memoir Poster Child, which is forthcoming from Random House in summer 2006.

Surviving The Body

by Emily Rapp, April 2005 (Issue 352)