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Eileen Cronin won the Washington Writing Prize in Short Fiction and had a notable essay in Best American Essays. A practicing psychologist, she is an assistant editor for Narrative and lives with her family in Los Angeles.

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‘Tracing the Blue Light’

Excerpt

<p>What is it like to realize you have no legs—and that’s why you’ve been left behind by your vacationing family? The author remembers in this excerpt from her acclaimed <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-Memoir-Resilience-Eileen-Cronin/dp/0393089010">memoir</a>.</p>

Eileen Cronin | Published Apr 07, 2014

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