The Drum

E. R. Catalano’s short story “News from My Father” won the 2004 Robert Olen Butler Prize and was published in an anthology from Del Sol Press. She has had short-shorts published in Upstreet and Swink. “Trying Lesson” is an excerpt from her recently completed novel, Becoming the Girl Detective, about a girl who makes a deal with God to become Nancy Drew to save her brother’s life. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

"Trying Lesson" appears in the January 2012 issue of The Drum.