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Author Pilar Graham

Pilar Graham

Pilar Graham is the author of Currents (2022). Her poetry has appeared in Cold River Press - Voices Anthology; Gasconade; Sundog; Haunted Waters Press; Indent Literary Journal; Finishing Line Press; Blackberry, among others. Publications for her creative nonfiction essays include Essay Daily; The Broiler: A Journal of New Literature; Poetry Midwest; and Pithead Chapel Press. Graham has served as a literary editor and a judge for local and national writing competitions. Graham earned her MFA in Poetry from California State University, Fresno and teaches at California State University, Monterey Bay and part-time for Fresno City College. Graham is currently seeking publication for her third collection of poems, Forever, Becomes, in addition to a collection of creative nonfiction essays, Burn Scars.
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Books by Pilar Graham


Falling

By Pilar Graham

Published: 2025

Out of the dark hole of grief comes a startling, at times surreal, lyricism.
—Karl Kempton

The speaker asks us to let go of the guardrails of reason, of the safety of the everydayness, to dive without knowing how it will turn out.
—Michelle Patton

These poems are breathtaking and beautiful, intimate and powerful!
—James Tyner