The Past Ten: An Anthology

Description

Based on the Past-Ten.com website created and launched by executive editor Donald Quist in 2017, The Past Ten features a wide range of responses from parenthood, to family issues, professional development, gender and sexual identity, addiction, recovery, illness, natural disasters, war, and more, and are from bestselling writers like Brandon Taylor and Heather Gudenkauf, up-and-coming writers, performers, critics, teachers, and everyday people, all answering the same question, where were you on this day ten years ago?

Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Donald Quist,Kali White Vanbaale (Editor),Bailey Gaylin Moore (Editor)
Published: 03/11/2025
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
ISBN: 9781960329752
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 0.63″ H x 8.50″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Vanbaale, Kali White: – Kali White VanBaale is the author of the novels The Monsters We Make, The Good Divide, and The Space Between. She’s the recipient of an American Book Award, an Eric Hoffer Book Award, and two State of Iowa major artist grants. Her short stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the A&E Network True Crime series, The Coachella Review, The Chaffey Review, Nowhere Magazine, Poets & Writers, and The Writers’ Chronicle. Kali is a core faculty member of the Lindenwood University MFA Creative Writing Program, where she was named Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2022. Find her at kaliwhite.com and @kaliwriting.Moore, Bailey Gaylin: – Bailey Gaylin Moore is a PhD candidate studying Creative Writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her debut essay collection, Thank You for Staying with Me, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2025. Her writing has appeared in AGNI, Pleiades, Wigleaf, Willow Springs, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Find her at baileygaylinmoore.com and @baileygaylin.Quist, Donald: – Dr. Donald E. Quist is author of two essay collections, Harbors, a Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner and International Book Awards Finalist, and To Those Bounded. He has a linked story collection, For Other Ghosts. His writing has appeared in AGNI, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and was Notable in Best American Essays 2018. Donald has received fellowships from Sundress Academy for the Arts and Kimbilio Fiction. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at University of Missouri. Find him at donaldquist.com and @donaldewquist.