Anne Gisleson

Anne Gisleson teaches writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Louisiana’s arts conservatory for high school students. Her writing has appeared in the Believer, the Oxford American, and other magazines, as well as in several anthologies, including Best American Nonrequired Reading and Life in the Wake: Fiction from Post-Katrina New Orleans.

Nonfiction – Issue 12

Shifting: Cycles of Loss on a Sinking Coast

I. Being CoastalOver the desk in my living room in New Orleans hangs an old map of Louisiana from my grandfather’s garage, where he seemed to reside for my entire childhood and always will in my dusky, oil-stained memory of…