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I was on the A train, riding uptown that fateful morning. I never intended to be a writer or indeed, to place my memories from that September day on the page, but I found myself turning to the literary arts in the years that followed to find healing. I wrote about it when it happened, on the fifth anniversary, the tenth and the twentieth. I even turned the narrative into a poem. It was an awful day, but what I carry from it, and will for the rest of my life, is the love and kindness that came from all over the world. I hope I never forget, because on the worse of days, I saw the best of humanity. These are the pieces I wrote in sequential order from the day after, through the twentieth anniversary of 9/11.
-Mary Alexandra Stiefvater
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Mary Alexandra Stiefvater is a writer, actor and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Stockton Record and Bibliophone. She has authored over 27 books. In 2020, one of her haikus, Home Sweet Home, was included in the Alan Nakagawa exhibit "Social Distance, Haiku and You" in collaboration with the Orange County Museum of Art. She has written and performed pieces for LA’s famed Rant & Rave and Theatre of Note's Marathon. Her poem, The Unknown, is part of the SAFER AT HOME Pandemic Collection through the LA County Library. An award-winning screenwriter, her screenplay, No Place Like Home, was part of the Scripts in Play series at the iconic Electric Lodge.