Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Kodi Scheer earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received the 2008 Prize in Creative Writing for Outstanding Thesis. She also won the 2008 Dzanc Prize to complete her first collection of short stories. An Iowa native, she now...