Fixing Time

Authors

  • Laura Madeline Wiseman University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abstract

Focuses on the sport of riding and fixing up vintage bicycles. Examines receiving a 1973 Schwinn Suburban and the process of making the bicycle road worthy. It mediates on the act of repairing it, the father-daughter relationship, and the building of a bike for errands.

Author Biography

Laura Madeline Wiseman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of twenty-two books and chapbooks and the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, selected for the Nebraska 150 Book List. Her collaborative book with artist Sally Deskins, Intimates and Fools, is a Nebraska Book Award 2015 Honor Book. Her book Drink won the 2016 Independent Publisher Bronze Book Award for poetry. Her recent collections are An Apparently Impossible Adventure and Leaves of Absence. Her essay "Seven Cities of Good" was an honorable mention in Pacifica Literary Review's 2015 Creative Nonfiction Award. She teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Published

2016-10-26

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): Sports

Section

Memoir/Personal Essay

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