50TH ANNIVERSARY ARCHIVES

The Hopscotch Girl


By PATRICIA FOSTER        ESSAY        VOLUME 30.1, WINTER 1996

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PATRICIA FOSTER is the author of All the Lost Girls, which won the PEN/Jerard Fun Award for Women’s Nonfiction; Just beneath My Skin; and the forthcoming Girl from Solider Creek. She is the editor of four anthologies, most recently Understanding the Essay (co-edited with Jeff Porter). She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from Florida State University. She is a professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa and has taught in France, Australia, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Spain.

VOLUME 30.1
WINTER 1996