Lisa O’Neill is a lover of dilapidated things: things worn around the edges, things slanting, falling over, cracked but not killed. A native of New Orleans and resident of Tucson, Lisa teaches writing at The University of Arizona. She has designed and taught writing workshops with incarcerated students at Tucson detention centers and presently serves on the board of Casa Libre en la Solana, a literary nonprofit supporting Tucson writers. Her work has previously been published in The Fiddleback, drunken boat, and Diagram. At her blog and literary hub, The Dictionary Project, she writes posts inspired by one dictionary word, selected at random, each week. What's defunct in her life? “An old, heavy as sin Underwood typewriter found at a garage sale for five bucks and lugged up and down the hills of San Francisco, a handful of favorite earrings missing their twins, a former belief that intense anxiety makes me more productive, the conceit that there's only one place to be from.”