Lacy Arnett Mayberry is a writer & reader living in Arizona, where she teaches at a local community college. She was awarded the 2014 AWP Writing Conferences and Centers prize for fiction and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Literary Mama, Tammy, Permafrost, and LunaLuna, among other publications.
Gerard Manley Hopkins is her first and forever language crush. This blog’s name– The Hurl and Gliding–comes from Hopkins’s poem The Windhover.
the hurl and gliding 
I *adore* Gerard Manley Hopkins. I knew I liked you for a reason (besides your writing style… I enjoyed the piece about your brother)! Glad I found your blog.