Marjorie Sanders is a poet and educator, among other adjectives. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of Southern Mississippi (2011) and will graduate in December 2020 with her MA in higher education administration from the University of Alabama, with plans to pursue doctoral studies in fall of 2021. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including three anthologies—the most recent of which, Rebloom, will be released in late 2020 from Point Positive Publishing.
Writing is a uniquely human, uniquely social endeavor; after all, basic needs can be met without language, without formality. For Marjorie, poetry is a way to electrify the mundane; to make even the most basal experiences into something beautiful, or bloody, or breathlessly untamed. She feels that some of the best poems can be written after the most nonsensical conversations, and that simplicity and complexity are two edges of the same blade—truths separated only by perspective.
An Alabama native, Marjorie currently resides in Mobile with her husband, Johnathan, and their three dogs. She firmly believes that spring is the best time for reading Whitman, and that paper books hold a little extra magic…the cruel irony being that she also feels terrible about the associated fate of trees. In addition to writing, she enjoys practicing the drums, solving her Rubik’s cube (she only learned how to do it recently, and she’s very excited about it), and having coffee with Johnathan. That last one, especially.
Tempered Runes Press Contributions
“Bite” – Poem – Volume 1, Number 1 of Bluing the Blade