Fun Fact: Mystic Trinities nominated for a Pushcart Prize &

shortlisted for ~ the 49th Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, the 2017 Arts and Letters Prize in Creative Nonfiction, the New South Prize, & the Under the Gum Tree (dis)empowerment contest. In 2020, find Mystic Trinities in print:  Catholic Women Writers: The Future of Unruly Women in the Church series.

Articulate Rage

Gravity’s wide palm fights to support my growing burden. Taurus is an earth sign. A stalwart. A constant. Uncompromising. As Earth, I bear witness and carry with me the burden of memory. But my memory is more than a recollection of sweet sixteens, first loves, and pregnancies lost. My memory is not my own. Like