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Abstract
With Love from All of Us is a linked collection of fictional stories concerned with connection to place, transitory movements, and womens relationships across time. These stories demonstrate the ways in which characters lives have taken them to disparate places and concern place-seeking as well as maintaining a historical and present knowledge of inhabited places. These stories chart the way people move through an environment and how the American landscape, in particular, is full of multiple kinds of loss and change.Peripheral and Aware: The Flneuse as Perspective turns to the underrepresented idea of the flneuse, connecting this idea to a place-based, environmental perspective. I contend that the flneuse is a particularly eco-conscious position, more marginalized and aware of the environment than the flneur. Commenting on the work of authors and critics such as Lauren Elkin, Lisa Robertson, Brenda Coultas, Amy Hempel, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Azzarello, and Walter Benjamin, this introduction asks how, as a woman writer, I can work toward an inclusive perspective that represents a gendered experience of space.