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Arissa Rench

Working title is "Three Birds", a personal essay currently of about 4,000 words. It's about the summer three years ago I had a miscarriage. The story is framed by the birds I encountered during that time as well as two extraordinary events that bookended the experience. It's also a musing on motherhood and the interconnectedness of nature, of all things.

Residency

Mar 26, 2018 – Mar 30, 2018

It was a new and precious experience to have several days to myself devoted to writing. Mornings were begun with rejuvenating in the sauna followed by several hours writing until the mid-afternoon. Then long walks on the beach or the trails in nearby state parks. One thing I really saw was how the writing took place no…