The Truth About Unringing Phones

When Lara was four years old, her father moved from Rochester, New York, to Anchorage, Alaska, a distance of over 4,000 miles. She spent her childhood chasing after him, flying a quarter of the way around the world to tug at the hem of his jacket. Now that he is in his eighties, she contemplates her obligation to an absentee father.
The Truth About Unringing Phones: Essays on Yearning is an exploration of responsibility and culpability told in experimental and fragmented essays.

Lara Lillibridge (she/they) is the author of Mama, Mama, Only Mama (Skyhorse, 2019), Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home (Skyhorse, 2018), and co-editor of the anthology, Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility (Cynren Press, 2019). Lillibridge is the Interviews Editor at Hippocampus Magazine and currently serves as a mentor for AWP's Writer to Writer program. Lara graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. In 2016 she won Slippery Elm Literary Journal's Prose Contest, and The American Literary Review's Contest in Nonfiction.