Bridget Verhaaren

BRIDGET VERHAAREN {[email protected]} is married to Dr. Gary Garner. Together they have eight children. She has a BA in English from Brigham Young University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Ms. Verhaaren’s essays have been published in the Write Launch, Herstry, Exponent II, Streetlight Magazine, Solstice Magazine, Sonora Review, the Season (Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts), and Segullah. She has a forthcoming essay in Segullah.

Panini and Psilocybin

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 04

“Pretty girls don’t buy cocaine,” Greta[1] says and laughs as she walks out the front door. My hands and face sting as I stand frozen in the entryway and hear her start the car. I’d…