About Author: M. A. Schaffner

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M. A. Schaffner has poems recently pub­lished or forth­com­ing in Prairie Schooner, Fine Mad­ness, The Hollins Critic, The For­mal­ist, Orbis (UK), Imago (Aus­tralia), and Poetry Wales. Schaffner’s first col­lec­tion, The Good Opin­ion of Squir­rels, pub­lished by Word Works, won the Wash­ing­ton Writer’s Cen­ter pub­li­ca­tion prize and the Colum­bia Book Award.

Posts by M. A. Schaffner

  • Once they may have been a minor species we viewed per­haps as inci­den­tal food, rooted from the occa­sional bur­row by women search­ing for tubers or grubs. Aha! they’d say, hold­ing...

    Rats

    Posted on March 1, 2008 | No Comments
    Once they may have been a minor species we viewed per­haps as inci­den­tal food, rooted from the occa­sional bur­row by women search­ing for tubers or grubs. Aha! they’d say, hold­ing...

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