Maria Reynolds-Weir writes and teaches in the Rust Belt. She is a clergy wife passionate about the least of these. Her essays and columns have appeared in Relevant Magazine, The Handmaiden Orthodox Journal for Women, the Vonnegut Library’s So It Goes and the anthology Enduring Love. Her poetry won the Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Foundation Award and appeared in Poetry of the South. She graduated from Chatham University with an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction.