Illustrated Book Review
Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader by Sue William Silverman, Reviewed by L.I. Henley
L.I. Henley was born and raised in the Mojave Desert of California. An interdisciplinary artist and writer, her books include Starshine Road (Perugia Press Prize, 2018); the novella-in-verse Whole Night Through; and several chapbooks including her recent collaboration with poet Jennifer K. Sweeney, Dear Question: A Conversation. Her essays on pain, illness, and the Mojave Desert have won the Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize, the Robert and Adele Schiff Award, the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award, and Terrain.org’s 15th annual nonfiction prize. “A Blur on the Spine,” originally published by Southern Humanities Review, is a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2024. She teaches in the English department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
