Kayla Rae Candrilli recently received a Bachelors and Masters in Creative Writing at Penn State University. She has committed the next four years to the University of Alabama to study creative non-fiction and women's studies. More than anything, Candrilli enjoys reading and rereading Marguerite Duras's The Lover, as it taught her how to self indict and forgive.
My father carved for my mother. He turned blocks of wood into mini-carousel horses. These horses were the most delicate things I’d ever seen a man make…
