Sara Lippmann's debut collection, DOLL PALACE (Dock Street Press) was long-listed for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She was the recipient of an artist's fellowship in fiction from New York Foundation for the Arts and her work has appeared in/is forthcoming from Slice Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Front Porch, Midnight Breakfast, Fiction Southeast and elsewhere. She teaches fiction through Ditmas Writing Workshops.
We’d arrived at the age of irrelevance, the lot of us – except for Daphne, who was not yet 30 – so it was important to acknowledge we were still alive, among the living.