Cara Wall

About Cara Wall

Cara went on to teach middle school history and English and she has been published by the San Francisco Chronicle, Glamour, and Salon. She worked on “The Dearly Beloved” off and on, in between these long stretches where she put all of her energy into parenting and teaching. Sometimes because this was absolutely necessary for her to earn a living or be totally present for her daughter, and sometimes because she wanted to. Often, she felt shame about not writing it faster, or not having the discipline to write for three hours a day, every day, as that’s what she was told was the key to success at Iowa. There were a lot of people in her life that had no idea she was even writing a novel because, at some point along the way, she totally quit talking about it, and decided that if she wasn’t act