Mara Finley is a San Francisco-based writer, author of an essay forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College of California, and recipient of the Agnes Butler Award for Literary Excellence. She is a former member of The Ruby, a gathering space for women and nonbinary artists and writers. She is currently at work on a memoir-in-essays of elegies/love letters to the women in her life, living and dead.