Erica Soon Olsen is the author of Recapture & Other Stories (Torrey House Press), a collection of short fiction about the once and future West. She is currently working on a manuscript about the sense of home and the dwellings of her Korean, Norwegian, and Swedish forebears. She teaches online in the UC Berkeley Extension Professional Sequence in Editing and lives in a log cabin near the Ashley National Forest in northern Utah. You can read more here:  https://www.ericasoonolsen.com

The typewriter is a sweet toy, the Junior Dial typewriter, owned and photographed by the author.