Mairead Small Staid is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the George Bennett Fellow. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, The Believer, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
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The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of... SEE MORE