Lisa Lebduska

Lisa Lebduska's work has appeared in such journals as Narrative, Writing on the Edge, The Forge, and Hamilton Stone Review, among others. Lisa teaches expository writing at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she also directs the college writing program.

Memoir of a Zebrafish

I swam in the Ganges, source of life to a billion bipeds, golden, striped in a horizontal blue crayoned by a dreamy child. My parents, like all teleosts, were indifferent about my birth, abandoning my siblings and me, but I grew in a chorion cradle, nourished by yolk, a pulsing sphere.