How much time do we want to spend with a young, beautiful, talented, self-sufficient, self-confident woman who dictates terms for life herself and to hell with everyone else? Turns out we want to spent a lot of time with her. By the end, one cannot help but to have fallen in love with her...and to feel how deeply she feels her need to give herself and her talent in an attempt to make a better world. -- Clay Reynolds, series judge on my prize-winning novella DELPHINE, Texas Review Press, November 2012”