Sonya Lara
Sonya Lara received her BA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MFA in Poetry from Virginia Tech. Currently, she is the Poetry Editor for Minerva Rising. She was accepted for the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, the Hambidge Creative Residency Program, and the Peter Bullough Foundation Residency and was shortlisted for the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award and runner-up in Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in X-R-A-Y Lit, Shenandoah, Ninth Letter, AGNI, the Los Angeles Review, the Acentos Review, and elsewhere.
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Symbols Crash Under the Weight
At the age of seven, I believed God to listen, my hands a corded phone transfiguring prayers to voicemails. One night I fell asleep without ending the call with the sign of the cross. During my eight hours of silence, wars were created & people begged for help, but God couldn’t be found because He […]
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Small Town Dispatches: Sonya Lara
Special Features Editor Nadeen Kharputly interviews Shenandoah contributor Sonya Lara to gain insights about what it’s like to live and write in the small town of Ripon, WI.