Emily Elbom grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon State University, where she is currently employed as an instructor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film.Everybody Doing Pretty Here
In 1955, when the Air Force started building on the far outskirts of town what the local paper called an Aerospace Defense Command Center, the town was excited. To quote the local paper, which the town often did, this would surely show those no-good Soviets exactly what they were dealing with. Their...
