Aurora Shimshak
Aurora Shimshak grew up in several rural communities and small cities in Wisconsin. Her poetry and essays appear in the Southampton Review, New Ohio Review, Salamander, and Spillway. An MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she is at work on a memoir about forgiveness and a collection of poems.
Reading List
Triptych with Mom and Horses
I. Self Portrait in the Room of Childhood Iknew which pictures Mom had made because once when I was a girl I went from piece to piece asking. The oil crayon bowl of fruit? The watercolor of lilacs in the E Room? The charcoal of pines above the bookcase? Yes, yes, my grandma said. In […]