She Wasn’t Ever Ours to Keep
February 5th, 2024 | by Elizabeth di Grazia
Every time Mayra was pregnant, the father said the child was not his. But after he learned we'd adopted one of his children, he threatened to kidnap her
About Elizabeth di Grazia
Elizabeth di Grazia
The memoir House of Fire: A Story of Love, Courage, and Transformation was published March 2016 by North Star Press. Elizabeth di Grazia is a recipient of a Jerome Travel and Study Grant, a mentor participant in the Minnesota Loft Mentor Series, and a recipient of a Next Step Grant from the McKnight Foundation. She is a founding member of the blog WordSisters. Her work has been anthologized in Illness & Grace: Terror & Transformation and Families: The Front Line of Pluralism, both published by Wising Up Press. Di Grazia has also widely published prose in a number of journals, including Marrow Magazine, Adoptive Families Magazine, SLAB, Minnesota Literature, The Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine, Minnesota Parent, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Edge Life, and many others.