Deirdra McAfee is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, Willow Springs, and The Diagram.
Her most recent work is Lock & Load: Armed Fiction (University of New Mexico Press), a literary anthology of stories about guns, featuring such distinguished contributors as Annie Proulx, John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Rick DeMarinis, Jim Tomlinson, and Pinckney Benedict, plus a host of new voices. Lock & Load’s purpose was to foster the long-delayed conversation about American guns—we have to talk; stories give us ways.
