Who I am.

I write about the landscape of grief, nature, and the wisdom of fools. The author of four books, my essays, poems, and reviews have been published in over 50 journals, including in the Huffington Post and Colorado Review. I’ve won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, the Chautauqua and Literal Latte’s essay prizes, and my work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and named a notable by Best American Essays. My account of hiking in Yosemite to deal with my wife’s death, Mountains of Light, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. http://www.markliebenow.com.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Literal Latte Essay Online



Today the Literal Latte Journal published my essay "Tinkering with Grief in the Woods." You can read it at www.literal-latte.com/2012/09/tinkering-with-grief-in-the-woods/

The essay won it's nonfiction contest, and it’s a chapter from my grief manuscript that deals with the time a year after Evelyn’s death when I still didn’t know what I was going to do with my life without Evelyn being part of it. The essay describes the week I spent at Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky and began to find answers.

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