ABOUT MARA

Mara has been playing pretend for as long as she can remember. Writing stories was just the natural evolution. 

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Mara's primarily writes speculative fiction, with fantasy and science fiction elements, and poetry. Her work is inspired by the natural world and by darkness in common - the habits and desires all humans possess but studiously attempt to keep secret.

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Mara lives in Boise, Idaho where she works professionally as an acupuncturist at a local nonprofit clinic and writes whenever she can. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in several publications, and she is the creator of This Poem Is For You: Horoscopic Poetry by an Unlicensed Bystander, a weekly poetry newsletter. 

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When she isn't writing or poking people with tiny needles for their own good, she can be found on a river, up a mountain, or curled up with her two beloved cats and an art project.