Juliet Escoria is the author of Black Cloud (CCM 2014). She is from Southern California but lives (improbably) in West Virginia.
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