Marianne Jay Erhardt lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her nonfiction appears or is forthcoming in Oxford American, Orion, River Teeth, storySouth, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of Ruminate Magazine’s 2021 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, a 2019–20 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, and most recently, a Pushcart Prize nomination. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and teaches in the writing program at Wake Forest University. Erhardt is currently seeking a publisher for her collection of lyric essays on motherhood, care, and imagination.
Nonfiction
Winter 2023
The Girl the Girls Piece Together
But he looked at her hands and saw they were real living hands. —The Brothers Grimm, “The Girl with No Hands” Hand The pears in the orchard have been numbered […]