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Shilo Niziolek

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Born

in Redding, California, The United States

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https://www.shiloniziolek.com/

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Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction

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Brian Doyle, Maggie Nelson, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Manguso, Samantha Hun ...more

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July 2011

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Shilo Niziolek is the author of the memoir Fever, the poetry collection atrophy, and the short story collection, Porcelain Ghosts, all through Querencia Press. She has a chapbook of essay, A Thousand Winters In Me, with Gasher Press, and two micro chapbooks of poetry, Dirt Eaters with Bottlecap Press and I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay with Ghost City Press. Shilo is a writing instructor at Clackamas Community College and facilitates creative writing workshops with the Literary Arts. She received her MFA from New England College and is the co-founder and Editor-In-Chief of the literary magazine Scavengers. She lives in Portland Oregon but hopes to one day move into the woods.

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Average rating: 4.52 · 221 ratings · 113 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	FEVER 4.82 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	atrophy 4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pigeon House 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Deaths 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirt Eaters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scavengers 1.2 by Shilo Niziolek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tinamarie Cox (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Scavengers 1.1 by Shilo Niziolek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Gray (contributor), Christina D. Rodriguez (Goodreads Author) (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are people out there who do this. They pick up and they leave. Sometimes they were never really there. Other times they are with you, but in their minds they are a thousand miles away. They are taking a walk down an endless road; they are standing in a field of daisies on some unknown cliff; they are floating through space. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

tags: alone, disappear, gone, leaving

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“It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

tags: control, disappear, leaving, powerful, relationships, toxic

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“But, sometimes, especially late at night, when only the wind is awake with my thoughts, I feel an urgent need. I think of lacing up my tennis shoes and stepping out the door, already in a half run. I think of running and running forever, until I become part of the night sky. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

tags: disappear, freedom, leaving, relationships, running, wild

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“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

tags: lavender, love, magic, rosemary, salt, superstition

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“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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“Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.”
― Alice Hoffman, Blackbird House

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“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”
― Alice Hoffman, Blackbird House

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“...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.”
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

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