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.
Tag: selective reduction
A six-pound, nine-ounce bundle of original sin, I was doomed upon arrival. In my infantile state, I failed to realize the totality of my holy burden. According to the Catholics, I was responsible for the mistakes of Adam and Eve, people I’d never met. Until I was baptized, I risked an eternity in Limbo, and