Marcia B. Loughran won Mrs. Mott’s prestigious haiku prize in fifth grade at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and resumed her writing career thirty years later. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2013. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Verdad, Spoon River Poetry Review and elsewhere. Her prize-winning chapbook, "My Mother Never Died Before and Other Poems" is available from her website or through Amazon. She is a nurse practitioner and proud resident of Queens, NY. https://marciabloughran.com/
