Lida Bushloper

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To: Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior
Re: Grand Tetons
Dear Madam Secretary:

Thanks for getting rid of “squaw”
And other racist bits.
Now banish, please, that sexist term
For mountains called “big tits.”

Lida Bushloper writes in multiple genres. Her stories have appeared in confession magazines and mystery magazines, including Kings River Life, Flash-Bang Mysteries, and Mysterical-e, and several anthologies. She has published poetry in The Lyric, The Formalist, and Light, and in the Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology, 2024. Her academic work has appeared in The Huntington Library Quarterly and The Explicator. A memoir about her sister was included in In Celebration of Sisters. Her poetry collection, Fault Lines, was published in 2018. She won the Academy of American Poets and Henri Coulette Memorial Poetry Award, sponsored by California State University, Los Angeles. Visit her blog at https://lidabushloper.com. She considers herself now too old to have a cat.