Poet Miriam O'Neal takes some time out to chat about her debut collection We Start With What We're Given. We discuss persona poems, putting together the manuscript, upcoming projects and more!
About Miriam O'Neal:
Miriam O’Neal’s poems and reviews have appeared in AGNI, Blackbird Journal, Marlboro Review, Ragazine, Solidago Journal, Southern Poetry Journal, and many other journals. She has been a finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants in Poetry, and for Louisiana Literature’s Tenth Annual Poetry Prize, as well as a Fellow in the Beginning Translators Fellowship Program at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for her translations of Italian poet, Alda Merini. She took her graduate degree at the Writing Seminars Program at Bennington College in Vermont. She lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts.