Heart of November. Wind blows like a shuffling of eras. Snow and my mother’s face wait in the background to test their philosophy of inevitability. Lights, like a line of ants, lead to the dining room. I am the bride. It’s the end of the ceremony. And as I prepare to sleep others carefully remove […]
Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania, in 1968. Lleshanaku won the National Silver Pen Prize in 2000 and the International Kristal Vilenica Prize in 2009. She was a resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1999, and a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, […]