This second full collection of prose poems from Mary Carroll-Hackett traces through a life spent in liminal places, particularly that often shadowy and always sacred realm between life and death, touching on both the isolation and the grace, even the bliss, such an existence can bring.
She is currently at work on a memoir..
She teaches at Longwood University and recently joined the low-residency MFA faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
The winner of Slipstream\'s 2010 poetry competition, her work has appeared in numerous journals.
About author(s): Mary Carroll-Hackett earned an MFA from Bennington College.
Poems made of love and heartbreaking loss, the collection works toward healing, a reconciliation of soul and self, of body and spirit, of the peace to be found even while walking with a foot in both worlds.
This second full collection of prose poems from Mary Carroll-Hackett traces through a life spent in liminal places, particularly that often shadowy and always sacred realm between life and death, touching on both the isolation and the grace, even the bliss, such an existence can bring