That Place I Used To Live
After my husband’s death, grief blinded me, perhaps, mercifully, so that I could not see how it would strip from me even the simplest of pleasures. In the spring, when once I had wandered the…
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Melanie Bryant
Melanie Bryant is writer and memoirist. Her work was a finalist for the 2021 Annie Dillard Nonfiction Contest and the 2022 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize. Her essay, “An Alphabetical Catalog of Love, Loss, and What We Ate,” was published in the December 2022 issue of Ruminate Magazine; she has work forthcoming in River Teeth’s Beautiful Things. She holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest where she is at work on a collection of narratives exploring grief and identity.