Eva Saulitis' "Prayer 48"




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Summary: <p>Eva Saulitis was intitally trained as a marine biologist and has studied the killer whales of Prince William Sound, Kenai Fjords and the Aleutian Islands and is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications. Dissatisfied with the objective language and rigid methodology of science, she later turned to creative writing – poetry and the essay – to develop another language with which to address the natural world. Saulitis’ most recent book publications include <em>Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas </em>(nonfiction), <em>Many Ways to Say It</em><strong><em> </em></strong>(poetry), and <em>Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist </em>(nonfiction). Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including <em>Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Carnet de Route, Seattle Review, </em>and<em> Kalliope. </em>She lives in Homer, Alaska, where she teaches creative writing at Kenai Peninsula College, at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, and in the Low-Residency MFA Program of the University of Alaska Anchorage.</p><br><p><strong>This biography was drawn from Saulitis' profile at </strong><a href="https://orionmagazine.org/contributor/eva-saulitis/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Orion Magazine. </strong></a></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>