About
Maren Alder is a poet living on the coast of Maine. Her poems have appeared in The Harbor Review, Salt & Ember, Fieldnotes Quarterly, and elsewhere, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, teaches community workshops, and is finishing her first chapbook.
On my writing
“I'm interested in the moment just before a sentence is spoken — the weight of it, and what we do with the silence when we decide not to.”
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Maren Alder’s poems have appeared in The Harbor Review and Salt & Ember. A Pushcart nominee, she lives in Maine, where she teaches community workshops and is at work on her first chapbook.
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Maren Alder is a poet from the coast of Maine. Her work has appeared in The Harbor Review, Salt & Ember, Fieldnotes Quarterly, and The Lantern Journal, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern Maine and was a fellow at the Granite Point Writers’ Retreat. She teaches community workshops and is finishing her first chapbook.
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