Marisa P. Clark is a queer writer who grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and came out in Atlanta. Her prose and poetry appear in Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Foglifter, Free State Review, Rust + Moth, Sundog Lit, Air/Light, and elsewhere. Best American Essays 2011 recognized her creative nonfiction among its Notable Essays. A senior fiction reader for New England Review, she lives in New Mexico with three parrots, two dogs, and whatever wildlife and strays stop to visit.

Other poems on the web by Marisa P. Clark:
Two poems
Four poems
"In Her Wake"
"Feeding Rodents"
"Prime, Or This Poem May Be About Flowers"
Two poems
Two poems
"An Early Snow"
"Matin"
"The Bradford and I"
"If a Heart Beats in the Forest..."

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