Julianna Baggott's 3 Things

1. Be able to buy shoes without going through an identity crisis.

2. Not lose my ass, completely, to gravity.

3. Stop worrying about losing my ass, completely, to gravity.

Julianna Baggott is a contributor to The May Queen and the author of four novels -- national bestseller Girl Talk, The Miss America Family, The Madam, and Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions co-written with Steve Almond (forthcoming, April 2006), as well as two books of poems, This Country of Mothers and, forthcoming, Lizzie Borden in Love: Poems in Women's Voices. She also writes novels for younger readers under the pen name N.E. Bode -- The Anybodies, The Nobodies, and The Somebodies (forthcoming, September 2006), and, outside of the series, The Slippery Map (forthcoming 2007). Her work has appeared in dozens of publications including the Best American Poetry series, Glamour, Ms., Poetry, TriQuarterly, and read on NPR's Here and Now and Talk of the Nation.