Mariah Schwarz started writing when she was 14 years old and hasn\u2019t stopped. After studying poetry with Charles Simic in college, she moved to New York City and began publishing poems in poetry reviews. Not long after, she lost her way as a writer and in the world. Wandering across the States and around the world; wondering with books, people, art and cultures; and a brush with mortality during motherhood returned her to herself. Cancer saved her life. She is herself again, publishing the memoir that tells that story, and writing all the other poems, essays and stories waiting to be told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a first lifetime of travel and books and moving and culture and art and family and friends. After all that I\u2019d become: I lost myself.\u00a0Just South of the Solar Plexus<\/strong>, a memoir, is a story about growing my voice and power, and then leaving them in the red dirt of the road when the world made it too hard to be who I was, hold my power, and deliver my voice. So: marriage, baby, cancer, then what? Facing life and facing death, so many of us\u2014especially women\u2014give up our voices, leaving who we are, what matters, and our power to change the world in the dust to wither. Here\u2019s how I reclaimed mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[36],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n