Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her. La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Maizes's Other People's Pets examines the gap between the families we're born into and those we create, and the danger that holding on to a troubled past may rob us of the future. She is the author of the short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Her work has received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's Fiction Open contest, has been a finalist in numerous other national contests, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Maizes is an alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lilith, and elsewhere. Maizes's short stories have aired on National Public Radio and have appeared in the literary magazines Electric Literature, Witness, Bellevue Literary Review, Slice, and Blackbird, among others. She now lives in Boulder County, Colorado. Maizes was born and raised in Queens, New York. Maizes, as she discusses her new book, Other People's Pets. This Virtual Author Event features Pushcart Prize-nominated author of We Love Anderson Cooper, R.L.
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