What do you want?
Friends, acquaintances, therapists, all asked me the same question, which they seemed to assume I should be able to answer. They asked, as most people would, because they saw me lost, unsteady, scrambling. You must want something, they said …
Bio:
Martha Graham wiseman grew up in New York and North Carolina. She has been an acting student, a dancer and choreographer, and an editor. She retired in 2020 from her position teaching literature and writing in the English department and running the writing centre at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her essays and poems have been published in a variety of journals, and “Dreams of Foreign Cities,” a prize winner in Fish Publishing’s Short Memoir Contest, appeared in Fish Anthology 2021.