Mary-Alice Daniel was born in Nigeria and raised in Reading, England, and Nashville, Tennessee. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Mid-American Review, PANK, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals. She enters USC’s PhD Program in Literature and […]
Mary-Alice Daniel
Mary-Alice Daniel: Mother, Part 73
The photographs I return to when I feel I could hate my mother: In one she is holding me up to prove how well she lined my eyes with kohl to protect them from the desert dryness. I am a baby with a pink Lamborghini who is selfish with birthday cake, but still refuses to […]