Leah Griesmann’s fiction has appeared in The Weekly Rumpus, PEN Center’s The Rattling Wall, and This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West, among other publications. She has received grants and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Fiction.

Leah Griesmann

Helicopter Parenting, the College Admissions Scandal, and James M. Cain’s “Mildred Pierce”

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Leah Griesmann’s fiction has appeared in The Weekly Rumpus, PEN Center’s The Rattling Wall, and This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West, among other publications. She has received grants and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Fiction.

Leah Griesmann

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Helicopter Parenting, the College Admissions Scandal, and James M. Cain’s “Mildred Pierce”