Jocelynn Cordes spent many years teaching college composition, both as a graduate student and later as an adjunct instructor. She completed her M.A. and the course work for the Ph.D. in literature but left graduate school before beginning her dissertation. Miss Cordes then spent many years in what she describes as a self-directed apprenticeship writing fiction. Under the pen name Plum McCauley, she has published two award winning novels, It All Started with a Bicycle and Worthy of Prometheus. She also writes essays and op-eds for various newspapers and webzines. Twenty-six of these are collected here.