(Someone should have told me, back in 1977, that medicine was more lucrative than writing.)
Elissa Minor Rust is the author of The Prisoner Pear: Stories From the Lake. Her stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is currently working on a memoir about her father's battle with brain cancer and her son's neurological struggles. Rust lives in Oregon with her husband, three children, and some cats and dogs.
