Maria is an international adoptee from Brazil that has called Michigan home since a baby. She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. An artist and poet, Maria’s latest poetry has recently been published or is forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic, SIAMB!, Strange Horizons, Breadfruit Mag, Feral: A Journal of Poetry And Art,& elsewhere. Maria’s first chapbook will be published by Ethel Zine’s Micro Press in December ‘23. Maria is an “It List” Writer for Detroitisit.com https://detroitisit.com. Socials IG: @Maria_Kornacki https://www.instagram.com/mar_kor12/ and @mariamakes_faces https://www.instagram.com/mariamakes_faces/ Twitter: @MRKornacki

an erasure handmade from a page of Bluets by Maggie Nelson

a framed collage closeup of Joni Mitchell

