title: Words From the Cafe: An Anthology
author: Anna Balint
description: Anna Blint is the author of "Horse Thief," a collection of short fiction spanning cultures and continents that was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Two earlier books of poetry are Out of the Box and "spread them crimson sleeves like wings." Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including recently in Riverbabble and Sparrow Trill, Minerva Risings special issue on Race in America. Anna is an alumna of Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, the Jack Straw Writers Program, and has received awards/grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and 4Culture. In 2001 she received a Leading Voice award in recognition of her creative work with urban youth at El Centro de la Raza. She has taught creative writing for many years and in many places, including in prisons, El Centro de la Raza, Antioch University and Richard Hugo House. Currently, she is a teaching artist with Path With Art, and at Recovery Caf in Seattle, where she founded and leads Safe Place, a weekly writing circle for people in recovery.
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  > _**Bay Tree Cottage**_
  
  >  **A** **NNA** **J** **ACOBS**
  
  >  _Contents_
  
    1. Title Page
    2. Chapter One 
    3. Chapter Two 
    4. Chapter Three 
    5. Chapter Four 
    6. Chapter Five 
    7. Chapter Six 
    8. Chapter Seven 
    9. Chapter Eight 
    10. Chapter Nine 
    11. Chapter Ten 
    12. Chapter Eleven 
    13. Chapter Twelve 
    14. Chapter Thirteen 
    15. Chapter Fourteen 
    16. Chapter Fifteen 
    17. Chapter Sixteen 
    18. Chapter Seventeen 
    19. Chapter Eighteen 
    20. Chapter Nineteen 
    21. Chapter Twenty 
    22. Chapter Twenty-One 
    23. Chapter Twenty-Two 
    24. Chapter Twenty-Three 
    25. Chapter Twenty-Four 
    26. Chapter Twenty-Five 
    27. Chapter Twenty-Six 
    28. Chapter Twenty-Seven 
    29. Chapter Twenty-Eight 
    30. Chapter Twenty-Nine 
    31. Chapter Thirty 
    32. Chapter Thirty-One 
    33. Epilogue 
    34. About the Author 
    35. By Anna Jacobs 
    36. Copyright __
  
  > > _Chapter One_
  
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