Brenna Hosman

Brenna Hosman grew up in east Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She has previously worked with the editorial team of Nelson Books at HarperCollins Christian Publishing in Nashville. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she is also the fiction editor for Mid-American Review.

Like Snakes Among Vines

In college, she learned about rape myths, the misconceptions and excuses created to downplay the crime and blame the victims. Dani saw the myths plastered on poster board and in the margins of flyers hanging on the walls of every campus building, myths that she didn’t even know she had believed until they were spelled out for her in words and, one by one, debunked.

Issue 49, May 2021

Brenna Hosman

Brenna Hosman grew up in east Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She has previously worked with the editorial team of Nelson Books at HarperCollins Christian Publishing in Nashville. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she is also the fiction editor for Mid-American Review.

Like Snakes Among Vines

In college, she learned about rape myths, the misconceptions and excuses created to downplay the crime and blame the victims. Dani saw the myths plastered on poster board and in the margins of flyers hanging on the walls of every campus building, myths that she didn’t even know she had believed until they were spelled out for her in words and, one by one, debunked.

Issue 49, May 2021

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