I leaned into her body, just beginning to cool, and brought my lips to her forehead. I brushed her hair as she once had mine. I, now, the matriarch of the remaining men. I had previously brought my mouth to his closed casket. Brother older by six years; I hadn’t seen him in one. Other […]
Deirdre Fagan
Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, mother of two, and associate professor and coordinator of creative writing in the English, Literature, and World Languages Department at Ferris State University in Michigan. Fagan is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Find a Place for Me, Regal House Publishing (2022); a recent collection of short stories, The Grief Eater (Adelaide Books, 2020); and a chapbook, Have Love (Finishing Line Press 2019); among others. She is a Best of Net finalist, and she is the prose editor for Orange Blossom Review. Fagan writes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and academic essays on poetry, memoir, and pedagogy. Meet her at deirdrefagan.com.