Patty Yumi Cottrell is the author of chapbooks The Drawers and The Jury of Sudden Hands. Her work has appeared in elimae, Everyday Genius, and Wigleaf. She lives in Brooklyn.
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies