Gail Gutradt is the author of 'In A Rocket Made of Ice', a touching memoir of life in a Cambodian orphanage where children were just discovering that they might not die, but might instead be part of the first generation to grow up with HIV/AIDS. Her stories, articles and poems have appeared in Kyoto Journal, Utne Reader and Ashé. This, her first Kyoto Journal article, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Gail sadly passed away in 2016 after a long battle with cancer.
