Introduction / Lavinia Spalding -- Lost and liberated (France) / Kimberley Lovato -- Runaway (Tibet) / Ann Hood -- Bridge on the border (El Salvador/Guatemala) / Molly Beer -- Twenty years and counting (France) / Marcia DeSanctis -- Learning to pray (Afghanistan) / Angie Chuang -- Beneath the surface (USA) / Lucy McCauley -- Storming the castles (France) / Susan Orlean -- Riverdance (Laos) / Laurie Weed -- What we do after gunfire (Brazil) / Jocelyn Edelstein -- Sidecar Sally (Mexico) / Carrie Visintainer -- Taking the oars (Zambia) / Bridget Crocker -- Root-bound (Italy) / Marcy Gordon -- Of monarchs and men in Michoacán (Mexico) / Meera Subramanian -- A thousand simple steps (China) / Amber Kelly-Anderson -- Kiwi hunt (New Zealand) / Jennifer Rose Smith -- Threadbare rope (Dominican Republic) / Carol Reichert -- Climbing Vaea (Samoa) / Catherine Watson -- International expiration date (Oman/Abu Dhabi) / Sarah Katin -- Our own apocalypse now (Vietnam) / Haley Sweetland Edwards -- I think it must be beautiful (Namibia) / Blair Braverman -- Passion and pizza (Argentina) / Layne Mosler -- Bones surfacing in the dirt (Cambodia) / Lauren Quinn -- Mare's milk, mountain bikes, meteors & mammaries (Krygyzstan) / Kirsten Koza -- Letting go on the Ganges (India) / Kristen Zibell -- Birthright (Israel) / Emily Matchar -- Spiral-bound (India) / Kate McCahill -- Meat and greet (Vietnam) / Abbie Kozolchyk -- Death and love in Kenya (Kenya) / Anena Hansen -- Dance of the spider women (Italy) / Laura Fraser -- On the Macal (Belize) / Mary Jo McConahay -- Holiday camp (England) / Martha Ezell -- Tongues and arrows (France/Spain) / Jessica Wilson.