In the nine stories of Let's Do, various calamities strike ordinary 
Midwesterners, who cope with a mixture of good intentions and 
ineptitude. Balancing humor with painful clarity, author Rebecca 
Meacham pulls readers into the lives of characters who struggle 
with—and more often against—change.

"Rebecca Meacham has one of the freshest voices I've encountered 
in a long time. Blatantly wise, she creates stories that are 
deliciously subversive, brave and outrageous, reminiscent of a
young Alice Hoffman. As the lives of her characters get derailed, 
they move with the damaged grace of walking through broken glass 
on tiptoe. This is a writer whose words speak with emotional 
resonance about the resilience of the human heart—a beautiful, 
authentic talent who knows that when you turn life upside down, 
you get good measures of both trouble and laughter, a lesson the 
very best writers recognize early."—Jonis Agee, Judge

"The characters in Let's Do are the kind of people we don't want 
to be—drunks, stalkers, lonely ex-wives and husbands, grieving 
parents all decent people who do indecent things—and Rebecca 
Meacham writes about them brilliantly, with empathy, intelligence 
and a scathing sense of humor. This is a terrific debut, by a 
fearless, hugely talented writer."—Brock Clarke, author, What We 
Won't Do

"The world of Rebecca Meacham's Let's Do is as brilliant as a 
diamond. Even the simplest actions—a walk across a snowy 
landscape, a visit from a sister—shine with unexpected light, and 
lives that at first appear to be simple are full of angles and 
refraction, showing greater complexity than we might have dreamed. 
Meacham's vision is complex, her characters rich and memorable, 
and the impact of her stories is dazzling."—Erin McGraw, author, 
The Baby Tree

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An Ohio native, REBECCA MEACHAM received her MFA in fiction 
from Bowling Green State University and her doctorate from the 
University of Cincinnati. Her fiction has appeared in numerous 
journals, and in 2002, was awarded the Chelsea Award for Short 
Fiction and the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. She lives with her 
husband in Wisconsin, where she is an assistant professor at the 
University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.


Number Three: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction