Sion Dayson is an American writer living in Paris France. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Hunger Mountain, Utne Reader, Smokelong Quarterly (contest winner) and several anthologies including Strangers in Paris. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has been awarded with grants and residencies from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando.
A perfectionist who claws for each word, I could use a little spontaneity. How tempting to try loosening up, to compose wildly, undisciplined, the “crazier the better.” To accept that I’m a genius all the time.