“The narrator of Sarapiqui, myself, is a wife and mother who is exposed to difficulties that confront her core beliefs. Sarapiqui, takes place about forty years ago in a primitive corner of Costa Rica. The events are true, names have been changed and time is compressed. It is a story of a marriage in its final stages, in a locale which is both beautiful and unforgiving. I have been a finalist for Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Katherine Paterson prize for children’s writing, and I have written nonfiction for newspaper columns, The Mindfulness Bell magazine and some years ago, The Woman’s Compendium. Otherwise, I am fairly new in the effort to be published in a literary journal, but delighted to find The James Baldwin Literary Prize which I believe encompasses the intent of this creative nonfiction story, an excerpt from Recuerdos, a memoir.”