I wanted to explore how domestic life can feel sacred and brutal at once. It’s a meditation on endurance, on the grace we invent for ourselves inside the wife/mother archetype, even as that role chafes and threatens to place us into self-erasure.

Chrissy Stegman is a poet and writer from Baltimore and the author of Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You.  A two-time Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, she’s a 2025 MVICW Fellow and a 2026 Château Orquevaux writer-in-residence.

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