Mourning Pages

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Mourning Pages is a newsletter about writing in the midst of grief. Joy and loss, academia, motherhood, publishingโ€”all mixed together to show how writing and creativity can fit into anyone's life.

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About Penny Zang

Writer from Baltimore, M.F.A in Creative Writing (Fiction). English professor in SC and book nerd. Debut novel: Doll Parts, forthcoming from Sourcebooks, Summer 2025.

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