Stranger Truths

Maureen Passmore is pursuing an M.F.A. in creative writing at Bowling Green State University, where she has served as managing editor of Mid-American Review. She received an M.A. in English education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published in Mississippi Review and Sycamore Review.

"Maureen Passmore's poetry I can only liken to cut-and-polished jewels: structurally simple, innately priceless, sharp-edged, and brilliant.... With the jeweler's touch, she brings out just enough edge, elegant and lean, to intrigue us before offering the next edge, then the next. What makes her poetry more than just admirable is the genuine vision behind it: she is determined to recreate emotional experience through a vehicle other than herself.... In a time of highly decorative and self-serving artistry, here comes a poet with the strength of the ground." - Larissa Szporluk"