Obsessed with bodies of water and haunted by a chorus of mysterious ladies, the unnamed protagonist desperately searches for what is real and what is a dream. A deep and vivid exploration of the passageway between life and death,The Mayfliesis a lyrical and haunting look at loneliness, isolation, and moving on.
Sara Veglahnis the author of two chapbooks,Another Random Heart(2009) andClosed Histories(2008). She holds an MFA from University of Massachusetts–Amherst and a PhD from the University of Denver, and has also taught creative writing at Regis University and Naropa University. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
Haunted by ghosts, a woman must make sense of what is real and what is a dream.
Sara Veglahnis the author of the chapbooksThe Ladies: an excerpt(New Herring Press, 2013),Another Random Heart(Letter Machine Editions, 2009) andClosed Histories(Noemi Press, 2008). Her work has been published in various journals, including Conjunctions, Web Conjunctions, Fence, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Fairy Tale Review, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from UMass-Amherst and a PhD from the University of Denver. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Praise forThe Mayflies
There is a hole in Sara Veglahn’s,The Mayflies,as deep as an arm is long and full of water. I keep returning to this hole, which seems dug from the wondrous dirt of Werner Herzog’sKaspar Hauserand filled with fierce water, albeit fresh, drawn from Virginia Woolf’sThe Waves.Like these works — and I am well aware of what it is I am implying: Veglahn is a brilliant writer and this is a brilliant book —The Mayfliesis full of mystery and illumination, fear and hope, the very dark and the very light. -Laird Hunt, author ofKind One, Ray of the Star, Indiana, Indiana
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