Ashley Dyson graduated from Middlebury College and received an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
To be a woman and to take on the role of bystander to the ever-changing human functions of conception, growth, and birth, seems to me a precarious state of being. And yet, I suppose it is important to consider this question: why nature chose women for the job in the first place? In my unscientific opinion the answer seems obvious, because women have the makeup to handle it. Perhaps the resolution I seek lies here, in a woman's inherent strength to overcome, to stand up, and to keep moving.