Donna Wojnar Dzurilla’s poetry has appeared in the Backbone Mountain Review, Rune Literary Journal, and the anthology, The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: Pittsburgh Poems. Her fiction has appeared in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers Ann Pancake Volume 16, Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen, Northern Appalachia Review, The Last Word and Other Stories: A Shelia-Na-Gig Anthology, the Voices from the Attic anthology series, and other publications. Dzurilla’s manuscript, Work Greens, traces a young woman’s journey from single motherhood to employment as a steelworker at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works during the early 1970s. Dzurilla graduated from Carlow University’s Creative Writing Program, is a member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshop community, and lives in Pittsburgh.

Living Grief

How am I supposed to do this? Your rough hands cup my shouldersyou hold me a step away then kiss me.I know every assaultworking steel made to your body.Pockmarks on the top of your hands from scalds of wet metalFlesh underyour right forearm puckered by a slice ofsheet metalInner left thigh a leathery map of …

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