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.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

One Morning in September




Journal entry 25

Five months after Evelyn died came the events of September 11, and I felt nothing. 

My world had already collapsed into itself. My home had already been destroyed and my loved one was dead. “Welcome to my world,” I thought from my dark house boarded with anger and sorrow. People around me were in shock and mourning, but my reaction told me that I was no longer among the living. I had moved to existing among the dead.


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