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Lisa Dordal

Lisa Dordal is writer in residence in the English Department at Vanderbilt University. Her most book is Next Time You Come Home.

On a trip back to the Indiana Dunesfor a week of vacation, I drive past my mother’s...

June 10, 2025

When my niece tells me she wants to be a scientist when she grows up, I respond—because of the whole science ...

August 6, 2024

My parents are ghosts now, ancestors who enter my dreams, sit with me in a circle...

June 26, 2023

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