Anna Mullen

Anna Mullen hails from the North Carolina piedmont. She studied environmental literature at Middlebury College, was a Bread Loaf Orion poetry fellow, and was Treleven Farm’s inaugural artist-in-residence (where she wrote exclusively about sheep). She is a co-owner of a worker-owned co-op printing and publishing collective in Western Massachusetts. You can find her essay about barrier island architecture in the Goose.

Nonfiction – Issue 28

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•Some Architectures: A Prelude

My mom tells me that I leaped in her belly every time the organ lurched into song. Her habitat was the pulpit in front of the tiny organist and the looming pipe organ. . . .