after Meredith Martinez My husband left me in February. He left with my love in his hands, and I walked to the pharmacy for a carton of eggs. The eggs were carried home in my dirty tote bag like a promise kept. I did...
When I Say Grief
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Ciara Alfaro
Ciara Alfaro is a Chicana writer, romantic, and descendant of magicians from Lubbock, Texas. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Swamp Pink, Passages North, Southeast Review, The Tampa Review, Witness, and more. She is the winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2022 PhotoFinish Contest, a 2023 AWP Intro Journals Prize, and Southeast Review's 2024 Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and currently serves as the 2024-25 Olive B. O’Connor Fellow at Colgate University.