Porter House Pod: PHR Goes to AWP (Part 2)

Monroe, who retired at the end of this academic year, has taught creative writing at Texas State University since 1992. In 1990, she received the Flannery O’Connor Award for her debut story collection, The Source of Trouble, and has since published numerous well-regarded novels, memoirs, and books of stories and essays.

The stool in the backyard is waiting
for your buttocks. The sun here longs
for your melanin, do you feel it?