Writer, Editor, Teacher, Project Manager
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Metro Detroit Freelance Writer Jenifer DeBellis's debut micro-memoir in verse, Blood Sisters, is now available from Main Street Rag (2018). She's Pink Panther Magazine’s executive editor and directs the Detroit Writers' Guild. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Solstice of Pine Manor College. A former writer-in-residence for the Meadow Brook Writing Project, she facilitates workshops for Oakland University’s MBWP Writing Camps. JDB teaches writing and literature for Saginaw Valley State University and Macomb Community College. When she's not editing or writing for others, she sneaks in time for her own craft, which was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and appears in AWP's Festival Writer, the Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Sliver of Stone, Solstice Literary Magazine, and other fine journals.
Little girl,
you will survive
these skinned knees, these bruised
cheeks. You will not jump, will not
form lasting scars with the barbed tip
of a #2 lead, will not die
in your sleep, no matter how
many times you pray for it. No
one will save you
in the end like they do in fairytales.
Little girl,
you will survive
the skinned cheeks, bruised knees,
starched heart. You will not find love
as the life of the party, will not
stop the kids with their sticks
from bashing your chest
until your innocence breaks free & settles
at your feet like piñata candy.
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Pink Panther Magazine News
Volume 9, No 2, Is Live, 8 September 2018
Submissions are open for Volume 10, No 1, due for release 8 March 2019
