“I’ve come to realize that as much as I want my heroes to know about me, it’s more important for my peers to know about me.” That is what my peer Dan Boehl said while we were sitting in a ballroom at the AWP Conference in Denver waiting for my hero Dave Hickey’s lecture to start. In the long and amazing answer to the one question he had time to respond to, Dave Hickey basically agreed. That said, I could not help going up to Hickey afterwards and being all “You’re one of my favorite writers, can I get a picture with you, etc. etc.,” resulting in the following image: 
Thanks, Dave Hickey! Also, thanks to everyone who helped work the Rose Metal Press table (including Caryn and Abby, pictured) and everyone who bought books, which turned out to be a lot of you: 
Also also, thanks to my fellow panelists Ashley Emmert, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Jacklyn Marceau, and Karen McElmurray (not pictured)… 
…and everyone pictured here…
…and here… 
…for coming to talk/listen to us talk about “Exploitation, Empowerment and Everything in Between: Women Writing Sex.” Hope to see you all in DC next year.
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Clues that the second photo (of you and Abby and Caryn at the RMP table) was taken early in the conference: 1) Butt of stooping staffer setting up FENCE table in b/g, 2) Big stacks of the two soon-to-sell-out RMP field guides on display, 3) Absence of thousand-yard stares of total exhaustion.
Yay AWP!
Kathleen, it was wonderful to finally meet you and hear your panel talk, and I look forward to hosting you at In The Flesh May 20th!