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A Christian feminist and author of Tiny Tin House and Radical, L Maristatter is also published in Defuncted journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and Persimmon Tree journal. Her fiction often explores the territory between feminism, faith, and misogyny. Maristatter loves cats, books, and chocolate, in that order. Usually.

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L. Maristatter The best thing about being a writer is also the worst thing: diving into your own head and translating what you find. Excavating the wrenching, the de…moreThe best thing about being a writer is also the worst thing: diving into your own head and translating what you find. Excavating the wrenching, the devastating, the joyful, the hideous, and bleeding that all onto the page for the reader, in hopes that somewhere in the mess they might find something valuable, something helpful, maybe even something transcendent. There is no safe way to be a writer. Not if you want to be a good one. (less)
L. Maristatter Don't write because you think it's cool, or you think you'll be famous or make a lot of money. That will always show up on the page. Write the novel o…moreDon't write because you think it's cool, or you think you'll be famous or make a lot of money. That will always show up on the page. Write the novel or the poem or the essay or the story because to not write it would destroy you. Write what takes you by the throat and won't let go. (less)
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From my Substack: On Getting in the Mood

"The United States of America is still very young, and right now it shows. We are spoiled children, always taking what we want and whining like a grounded teenager if we somehow can’t get it. The nation is great, but she is also aspirationally great. We have not yet grown into our pants. The soul of the nation must ripen. If she is to survive, she must become the nation all our fine words paint he Read more of this blog post »
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“Don’t you get it? Nobody belongs.” She leaned toward me, her green eyes thoughtful now, her fingers pulling at the hem of her nightshirt. “We like to think we do. We set ourselves up in families and communities and clubs and castes, and we think that’s going to make us feel less lonely. But it doesn’t. Because nobody on this earth is going to truly understand you. You’ll never belong anywhere. The only person you belong to is God. And the only place you will belong is heaven. And until you realize that, Meryn, you won’t be happy anywhere.”
L. Maristatter, Tiny Tin House

“I expect that someday you’ll have to deal with a little girl just as defiant as you were. But you’ll be glad she defies you, in spite of your frustrations, because you’ll know she has the courage to take on the world if she ever has to.”
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“For a community that believed in the existence of sin, conservative evangelicals were curiously nonchalant about the dangers of unchecked power when that power was placed in the hands of a patriarch.”
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“In a world that didn’t accept the word of a woman as a valid witness, Jesus chose women as witnesses for his resurrection. In a world that gave husbands power over the very lives of their wives, Paul told husbands to do the opposite—to give up their lives for their wives. In a world that saw women as biologically deformed men, monstrous even, Paul declared that men were just like women in Christ.”
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“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Christians that oppression is godly. Their God ordained some people, simply because of their sex or skin color (or both), as belonging under the power of other people.”
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