Dara T. Mathis is an essayist and journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, The New York Times, the Women’s National Basketball Association, and other media outlets. In 2024, she was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Her writing has also received support from MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Nonfiction
Fall 2025
Birdsong in Maples
Birdsong taps you on the shoulder this morning, as if the warbler serenading daylight has snuck into your kitchen to distract you from pouring your son’s cereal. The call is […]
Nonfiction
Fall 2025
A Ghost of Powder
On Southern summer days, I think about bosoms. We don’t use that word much anymore, likely because no one wanted to have bosoms when we were young. The word sounded […]