October 4, 2002
Lesbian, a Mother, and Tenured in God's Country
When I first came to Mansfield University 13 years ago, to this remote part of northern Pennsylvania for a temporary job teaching composition, I never thought I'd stay. I was fresh out of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, M.F.A. in hand. I assumed I'd be gone in a year, packing my bags and heading off to a real life, in some other, more civilized part of the country. No one, after all, could make a life in a place where the median income was $12,000, where there's no concept of
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