The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes) - Kate Lebo

Lebo, Kate: - Kate Lebo is the author of the cookbook Pie School and the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers , and is the coeditor, with Samuel Ligon, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze . Her essay about listening through hearing loss, The Loudproof Room, originally appeared in New England Review and was anthologized in The Best American Essays 2015 . She lives in Spokane, Washington, where she is an apprentice cheesemaker to Lora Lea Misterly of Quillisascut Farm.