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Mary Ellen Sanger lived in Mexico for 17 years, and has published short stories, creative nonfiction and poetry in Spanish and English in Mexico, the US and online. She led bilingual workshops for New York Writers Coalition for six years, and is currently Associate Director with Colorado State University’s Community Literacy Center. Since leaving Mexico, Mary Ellen has been involved as a mentor and member of the fiction and poetry committees for the PEN Prison Writing Project, and as a post-production coordinator for the Emmy award-winning Mexican documentary "Presunto Culpable” (Presumed Guilty). ...more

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Shatter

He was making a shelf, just cutting some glass along scored lines, the way he’d done so often, goggles in place, gloves, a protective board as he pushed on the glass that was to split in two – and then it shattered. I heard it from the other room, a massive tinkling sound. He called me to see, as it was astounding, so many little glittered cubes littered the floor of the garage. He didn’t real

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	Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree: Stories from Ixcotel State Prison 4.27 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	# MARIUPOL # HOPE: A True Story of Survival During the War From a Survivor's Diary by Nadiya Sukhorukova, MaryEllen Sanger (Goodreads Author) (editor), Ksenya Kostynskaya (translator) 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voces con Eco: Writing from Mano a Mano by Luz Aguirre, MaryEllen Sanger (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And the waxing moon: back country skiing in Afghanistan by MaryEllen Sanger (Goodreads Author), Yvonne Garrett it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Putin vs the World: Why Russia Has Not Changed in the Past 400 Years: The Russian Political System Throughout History by Vadym Denysenko, MaryEllen Sanger (Goodreads Author) (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“answers to impossible questions,”
― Mary Ellen Sanger, Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree

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“That from which these things are born
That by which they live
That to which they return at death
Try to know that”
― Carolyn Forché

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“Remember, though, what defies comprehension isn’t the mysteries of the world, but the cruelties that humans are capable of inflicting upon each other.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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