Desiree Santana
Desiree Santana is currently a Poe–Faulkner fellow at the University of Virginia. She was born in Coeburn, Virginia and raised in Tidewater. You can find her work on poets.org, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere.
Reading List
The Starving Time
We went on field trips to battlefields with long, green lawns grazed on in the dark by deer, bordered with split-rail fences and tall pines. What I remember of Jamestown is the smell of root-beer barrels and the slow demonstration of musket fire. How we covered our ears and how we […]