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Mary Ellen Sanger lived in Mexico for 17 years, and has published short stories, creative nonfiction and poetry in Spanish and English in Mexico, the US and online. She led bilingual workshops for New York Writers Coalition for six years, and is currently Associate Director with Colorado State University’s Community Literacy Center. Since leaving Mexico, Mary Ellen has been involved as a mentor and member of the fiction and poetry committees for the PEN Prison Writing Project, and as a post-production coordinator for the Emmy award-winning Mexican documentary "Presunto Culpable” (Presumed Guilty).
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He was making a shelf, just cutting some glass along scored lines, the way he’d done so often, goggles in place, gloves, a protective board as he pushed on the glass that was to split in two – and then it shattered. I heard it from the other room, a massive tinkling sound. He called me to see, as it was astounding, so many little glittered cubes littered the floor of the garage. He didn’t real

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“answers to impossible questions,”
Mary Ellen Sanger, Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree

“That from which these things are born
That by which they live
That to which they return at death
Try to know that”
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