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Mara Naselli

Nonfiction

Summer 2014

On Being a Mother

By Mara Naselli

After you acclimate to the sleep deprivation and the constant monitoring, the self-control to deny your own inherited impulses, the gentle management of some kind of hierarchy of development (create […]

Mara Naselli

Mara Naselli is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Agni, Ninth Letter, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere. She writes about literature for […]