“The Vanishing” by Maris Handler was the recipient of the 2017 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize and published in issue 30:2 of CALYX Journal, available here.
Marisa Handler is a writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, and coach. She is the author of the memoir Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a Nautilus Gold Award for world-changing books. Her essays, fiction, journalism and poetry have appeared in The Sun, Orion, Salon.com, Witness, Bitch, Tikkun, Kosmos, Ruminate, Calyx, 580 Split, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. Visit her website at www.marisahandler.com