The reality is different from the ideal. Spite Fences is not the first book in which Krisher tackled the issue of discrimination with honest and compelling prose. While her children were growing up, Krisher spent many years reviewing books for the Dayton Journal-Herald, and now sees that work as a wonderful education in fiction. Krisher has also written a composition textbook. She is now at work on a second novel called Kinship , about Maggie's best friend, Pert Wilson.
Illiteracy is a fence.
Broken families are fences. Prejudice is a fence. I wrote Spite Fences because those kinds of fences concern me. The goal of my writing is to explore the fences that divide and to create the bridges that unite. I am also interested in writing novels that can empower young people.