Maria Giesbrecht, Third Place winner in Narrative’s 2026 Winter Story Contest and a finalist in the Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of the debut poetry collection A Little Feral (Write Bloody, 2026). She is the winner of the 2025 Jack McCarthy Award and an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph. She lives near Toronto, Canada.
Photo credit: David Casco
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Day of the Dog, a short story, in Spring 2026
- White Birds, poetry, in Narrative Backstage