I’m sorry about the frozen ground I say to the fox, who has been...
There Is No Other Side
Two large trees drop their early pecans against the roof. ...
Trust Me When I Say I’ve Seen You Before
And the question you will have to answer again and again: if the self abducts the self, who is left behind?...

Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s collection of poetry, Either Way You’re Done (2017), was published by Sundress Publications and their chapbook, Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015), was winner of the Vella Chapbook contest. Their essays and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Baltimore Review, Mid-American Review, Poet Lore, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tampa Review, and other journals. They teach Creative Writing at Auburn University at Montgomery and also serve as Creative Nonfiction editor at Los Angeles Review and Thirteen Bridges Review.
