Mara Eve Robbins  

through connection and courage and consideration. With the perspective that we often embody a culture of simile, she is often more interested in living within metaphor. Her undertakings are overlaying and she seeks writing in herself and others that is breathgiving as well as breathtaking. She is willing to break down in order to break through and to risk rejection in order to realize her deepest dreams.

She writes poems in order to feel and in order to discover what she’s feeling; she reads poems in order to feel the deep sense of less-alone that sinks in when someone else expresses something she has felt but not yet found the ability to incarnate into being. Her work tends to emerge at will though she believes deeply in deliberate practice and has experimented with many different variations on writing-every-day. Reading aloud is exhilarating to her and she seeks opportunities to explore performance and performativity within her voice and to write her words in a way that encourages them to be spoken and explored.

She writes prose mostly to communicate—her most authentic voice often emerges through correspondence. When she writes an essay, she often imagines her readers and addresses them in her head as she writes because it helps her voice to emerge more authentically if she has someone to speak to. She utilizes fiction as a way to uncover deeper truths by giving herself permission to make things up.

She believes that we are all seeking ways and means to access our stories and that by sharing them we open doors to ourselves that bring the rooms we have inhabited as well as the ones we can imagine into being. She trusts that by learning more about who we are we through the way we share our stories we can experience ourselves more deeply as individuals and as a part of the great belonging.
 

Mara Eve Robbins lives and writes in Floyd County, Virginia. She stops to help turtles cross the road, enjoys drinking green tea out of blue Mason jars and often wanders around with Sharpie markers asking people to write poetry on her pants. Among other marvelous publications, her work has appeared in New York Quarterly, Nantahala Review, Real Simple and Floyd County's own Museletter.