Stacy Parker Le Melle is the author of the memoir Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House (Ecco/HarperCollins) and served as the primary contributor to Voices from the Storm: the People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (McSweeney’s). She serves as workshop director for the Afghan Women's Writing Project.
"Several Detroit City Council members slammed the state’s management of Belle Isle…after hearing the city clerk was pulled over by a State Police officer who claimed he was keeping ‘riffraff’ off the island.” –Detroit Free Press, April 30, 2014 Belle Isle rests like a pendant charm where Lake St. Claire narrows into the Detroit River. Both banks widen as if to accommodate this island suspended within a subversion of our understanding of the world—the one…
