Here they are, thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. A hardy gold-coated thing of extremes, of grassy steppes and shrubland, highest highs and lowest lows. They shoulder the burgeoning recovery among wolves and ravens. Span the Samosely selfsettlers, the sturdy evacuation refusers. The world’s worst nuclear disaster has given way to this: glints of sunlight […]
Elizabeth Vignali
Elizabeth Vignali is an optician and writer in the Pacific Northwest, where she coproduces the Bellingham Kitchen Sessions reading series. She is the author of Object Permanence and coauthor of Your Body A Bullet. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Cincinnati Review, and Mid-American Review, among others. Find more at elizabethvignali.com.