How long had my godmother walked around with something that felt like fire? And she knew what fire felt like. Had experienced it several times: carting piglets out of a burning barn, stupidly dashing back into the flaming shed to grab a favorite magazine, and of course the day her father’s sedan exploded in the […]
Mary Biddinger
Mary Biddinger’s latest book is a novella-in-flash titled The Girl with the Black Lipstick (Black Lawrence Press, 2025). She is also co-editor, with Julie Brooks Barbour, of A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers (University of Akron Press, 2024). Biddinger is currently at work on a collection of prose poems about a semi-feral 1980s childhood in Chicago.