ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe stories in The Fish that Got Away were much improved by the sharp eyes and good judgment of editor Linda Rodriguez. Linda Rodriguez’s 11th book is Fishy Business: The Fifth Guppy Anthology (edited.)
Dark Sister: Poems is Rodriguez’s 10th book. Plotting the Character-Driven Novel, based on her popular workshop, and The World Is One Place: Native American Poets Visit the Middle East, an anthology she co-edited, were published in 2017. Every Family Doubt, her fourth mystery featuring Cherokee detective, Skeet Bannion, and Revising the Character-Driven Novel will be published in 2021. Her three earlier Skeet novels—Every Hidden Fear, Every Broken Trust, Every Last Secret—and earlier books of poetry—Skin Hunger and Heart’s Migration—have received critical recognition and aw
