This week’s featured Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has vaccinated wild boars in Chilean zoos, confirmed that a certain Turkish wonder of the world is now just a single pillar in a 
swamp of turtles, and occasionally felt like a rock star while teaching English in Korea: A. Kendra Greene. Although she misses the citrus of her native California, she is happy to be studying nonfiction, letterpress printing her own chapbooks, and recording the occasional radio essay at the University of Iowa, where she is a MFA candidate.
What is “home” for you? Is it a particular place or person or thing?
Well, what I’ve come to respect most about where I’m from is the napkins. The U.S. lags inexplicably in yogurt, swank taxicabs, and parade-inducing national holidays, but, both cloth and paper, we have the softest and most extravagantly abundant napkins going. Read the rest of this entry »
