Thieves I've Known (27 page)

Thank you also to a number of additional friends at Stanford who've been so supportive: Gavin Jones, Denise Gigante, Dan Colman, Liz Frith, Charlie Junkerman, Elana Hornstein, Megan Miller, Nick Jenkins, Saikat Majumdar, Judy Richardson, Ramon Saldivar, Andrea Lunsford, Jennifer
Summit, Dan Archer, Dan Klein, Matt Jockers, Jeremy Sabol, Scott Doorley, Laura McGrane, Bob Smith, Marissa Gemma, and of course Natalie Jabbar.

I'd love to list all of my students, but a few will have to stand in for the many. Thanks to Lucas Loredo, Lauren YoungSmith, Nik Sawe, Danielle Sheeler, Anneke Nelson, Max Doty, Vauhini Vara, Jess Goldman, Killeen Hanson, and Sara Buer.

Thank-you, very much, to so many members of my family who have been so supportive over the years, especially Edward Kealey, Robert Kealey, Don Kealey, Margaret Kealey, Donald Kealey, and Doreen Kealey, and all the members of the Kealey, Carroll, and Glynn families.

Thank-you to George Sembert, Doug again, Mike Kunow, Sallie Phillips, Tony Bila, Jim again, Terry again, Glen again, Dieter Tannert, Cameron Otzman, Dave Hunt, and Laurie Sandell. You know why.

Last call. Thanks to Genie and Jennifer Alexander, Lisa Watts, Bob Malekof, Brigitte Chauvigne, Rosemarie Murphy, Jessica Partch, Krysty Byrd and Matt Alper, Chris and Adrianna Kirkman, Allison Jones, Dawn McAvoy, Gravity Goldberg, Sara Houghteling, Aubrey Aldret, Seth Abramson, Susan and Ben Malikowski, Chris “Commish” Cooney, Jon Berry, all at Squeeze the Rock, Phil Knight, Peter Rock, Todd Pierce, Kristen Tracy, Chris Baty, Julie Rigaudiere, Minerva Hallacy, David Barker, Katie Boyle, Lyndon Rego, Michael Breen, Jory John, Jeff Hoffman, Tommy and Kelcie Beaver, Victoria Chang, Erica Rice, Nancy Harrison, Laura Crescimano, Kara Hammond, Meena Wilson, Channan Tigay, Rebecca Black, Catharine Fox, Christina Tran, “Handsome John” Lundberg, Joe Harrison, Jenny Zhang, Cheryl McGrath, Josh Tyree and Emily Mitchell, Alvaro Villanueva, Ninive Calegari, Dave Eggers, Naomi, Phil, J.R. and everyone in the Greensboro Dashers, and Christine Texiera for the peepers.

“Introduction, or Nobody” first appeared as “Nobody” in
The Rumpus
(2013). “From Bremerton” was originally published in
Ascent
25.3 (Spring 2001). “The Lost Brother” appeared first in
Glimmer Train
(2013).
“Thieves I've Known” was originally published as “Bones” in
Prairie Schooner
77.4 (Winter 2003) and later anthologized in
Best American Non-required 2004
. It appears here by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2003 by the University of Nebraska Press. “The Boots” was originally published in
Story Quarterly
42. It was also the winner of the 2005 Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation and Intersection for the Arts. “Circus Night” was originally published as “Wire” in
Indiana Review
24.2 (Fall 2002). “Groundskeeping” was originally published in
Glimmer Train
40 (Fall 2001). “The Problem with Flight” was originally published in
Black Warrior Review
28.2 (Spring/Summer 2002). “Coyotes” was originally published in
Indiana Review
29.1 (Summer 2007).