Sonja Livingston is the author of four books of nonfiction, including her latest collection of lyric essays, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions into Devotion, and, Ghostbread, an award-winning memoir of urban and rural child poverty. Her work is widely anthologized and taught in creative writing and social justice classes around the country. Sonja teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
July/Aug 2019
Nota Bene: On the Bodies of Poor Boys
Every spring my brother’s body is taken up by soldiers and nailed to a cross. The sound of hammering ricochets throughout the church. Chosen to play Jesus in the annual […]