Across the river from New Orleans’ French Quarter is a place much, much wilder. April Blevins Pejic went to explore this unusual experiment in wild animal conservation and came away thinking about her own New Orleans neighborhood in a new light.
About April Blevins Pejic
April Blevins Pejic is a writer from New Orleans. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Massachusetts Review, Cimarron Review, Green Briar Review, Arcadia Magazine, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and has twice been noted in the Best American Essays. She is the nonfiction editor of The Peauxdunque Review and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers' Alliance.