“The night you were born, a village grew up from the frozen ground in Siberia.
In the beginning, the house walls were cartilaginous and uncertain.
As you grew older they hardened into bone.”
Mary Haidri is the author of the play Every Path (La Jolla Playhouse). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Permafrost Magazine, Pigeon Pages, The Molotov Cocktail, Winter Tangerine, Portland Review, Fairy Tale Review, and others. She was the recipient of the 2017 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Award, the 2018 Shadow Award, and the 2022 Shelley Reece Award. She was a fiction editor for Portland Review, a poetry reader for Fairy Tale Review, a collaborator of Nettleworks, a creative theater collective, and is the current venue coordinator for the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival.
Contact her at mary.haidri@gmail.com.
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