Karen Parkman

Karen Parkman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her writing has
received support from Vermont Studio Center, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars,
Yaddo, and MacDowell. Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Witness, Blue
Mesa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. *Buffalo Jill *is her debut
novel.

Buffalo Jill

Karen Parkman

Chapter 1 On Sundays, Jeanine and I got ready for games together. We’d trade off whose apartment we met at. My apartment had the smaller bathroom, but in my bedroom was a big vanity mirror where we could smear on makeup, outline our lips and eyes with slick crayons, and watch our faces brighten and […]