Mairead Small Staid is the author of The Traces: An Essay (Deep Vellum, 2022), about travel, happiness, and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.
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