Maria Sings | Catherine Esposito Prescott

Catherine Esposito Prescott is the author of the chapbooks Maria Sings (dancing girl press, 2017) and The Living Ruin (Finishing Line Press, 2012).  Catherine earned an MFA in Creative Writing — Poetry from New York University, and her poems have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies, including Bellevue Literary Review, MiPOesias, Pleiades, Poetry East, Rattle, Spoon River Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Orison Anthology (Vol. 1, 2016), Tigertail: A South Florida Poetry Annual (Vol. X: Sunstruck Matches), and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent.  Catherine is cofounder and co-curator of the SWWIM Reading Series based in Miami Beach, Florida.  Please visit her at www.catherineespositoprescott.com   One Maria, Two Maria, Three Maria, FourOne Maria orders decaf, the others cafe con leches.One Maria speaks Portuguese, another Italian,another Spanish, another English. One Maria left her firstborn son in Peru. Another Maria was infertileuntil her fifth IVF treatment. One M