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There’s no doubt that Mhyana knows how to weave imagery and make love to words and sensation in a way that leaves you breathless.” 
                                                                            Carve Magazine 

      “Exquisite”                            “Awfully good”                              “Very impressed”

Southeast Review              –Mid-American Review               –Hayden’s Ferry Review

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      “Impressive”                      “Such lovely writing”                           “Wonderful”  

  – Columbia Journal                       - Ruminate                     – The North American Review

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      “Subtle, evocative”                                    “A very strong manuscript”

    — Antigonish Review                                      — Beloit Poetry Review

 

 

“Sensitivity in the choice of detail and evocation of feeling”
                                             —Event Magazine

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“Fabulous, original, impassioned” 

—Entelechy Mind and Culture

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   “I loved so much about ‘Cloud Atlases, Panic Pills,

& a Ribbon of Blue’ (anything that starts with a quote by 

Jean Rhys immediately has my attention).”

                                                                                           – The Kenyon Review

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         Recent Publications

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The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction

Finalist, Bellingham Review / finalist / “A Vow of Silence” / Lyric essay (June 2022)

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The Maine Review,  “Different Yellows, Whole and Broken” / Lyric essay (May 2022)

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Chautauqua, “May you Carry the Broken World” / Lyric essay (May 2022)

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The Southeast Review, “Prospecting” / Lyric essay (March 2019)

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The Compassion Anthology: Mercy for the Displaced /  “Counting the Beats” / Lyric essay (winter/spring 2019)

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Lunch Ticket, “Counting the Beats” / Lyric essay (winter/spring 2019)

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Sigh Press, “Poetry in a Hostile Environment” / Cultural Commentary (winter 2018)

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Sigh Press, “The Cry Catcher” / Poem on the theme of fragility (winter 2018)

 

The Cincinnati Review, “Sacre Coeur & Wound Man” / Lyric essay (Issue 15:1, 2017)

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Cutbank, “Laughter & Forgetting” / Lyric essay (Issue 87, 2018)

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The Roanoke Review, “Mappa Mundi” and “The Weight of Prayer” (Vol XLII) / Poems

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Structo, “RX” / Poem (Issue 18, Spring 2018)

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Juked, “Milk & Honey: Portrait of a Self-Portraitist” and “Forever’s Requiem” / Lyric essay & flash prose

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Burrow Press Review, “Grindstone & Fog” and “Knaves & Whoresons” / Prose poem & Lyric essay (nominated Best of the Net 2015, 2016)

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Eclectica, “Ambidextrous Poesie” (finalist, Best of Issue)/ Lyric essay

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