Amy E. Robillard is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. She is editor, with Ron Fortune, of Authorship Contested: Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author, and her work has appeared in a number of professional journals. Her personal essays have appeared on The Rumpus and on Full Grown People.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Learning to Keep My DistanceChapter 2: Searching for StoriesChapter 3: Witnessing the CollapseChapter 4: Narrating FragilityChapter 5: We Are All Telling It Slant

Amy E. Robillard is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. She is editor, with Ron Fortune, of Authorship Contested: Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author, and her work has appeared in a number of professional journals. Her personal essays have appeared on The Rumpus and on Full Grown People.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Learning to Keep My DistanceChapter 2: Searching for StoriesChapter 3: Witnessing the CollapseChapter 4: Narrating FragilityChapter 5: We Are All Telling It Slant

Amy E. Robillard is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. She is editor, with Ron Fortune, of Authorship Contested: Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author, and her work has appeared in a number of professional journals. Her personal essays have appeared on The Rumpus and on Full Grown People.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Learning to Keep My DistanceChapter 2: Searching for StoriesChapter 3: Witnessing the CollapseChapter 4: Narrating FragilityChapter 5: We Are All Telling It Slant