FAITH
PALERMO
WRITER & EDITOR
ABOUT FAITHFaith Palermo is a Boston-based writer, interviewer, editor, and ghost writer. She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at George Mason University where she was the Nonfiction Editor at Phoebe Journal. She is currently working on a book that interrogates the cultural, scientific, and historical context of international nuclear disasters. A full list of her publications and fellowships can be found here.
“A catfish is an act of creation. Fingers brush dust off old things, pictures and identities locked into different contexts, and build a new life. They craft a story, a rationale for existence. They repurpose, revise, slice pictures from profiles to collage their own. They sit in vats, aged by sun, until someone comes along and takes them.”
Hayden’s Ferry Review • “Perception”
Pushcart Nominated
“Outside of the confines of air, a charged particle can move faster than light. As it travels, it pushes past the atoms blocking its way, causing them to release photons, the particles that make up visual light. The resulting phenomena is a blue haze, cyan softened by the surrounding water … Physicists call this Cherenkov blue, named after the scientist that discovered it. Pantone calls this cerulean, named after the Latin word for heaven.”
Cheuse International Writer’s Center • “Swatches in Gradients: A Rumination on Energy”
“When I imagine warping my body to wring the pain out, it’s my skull I imagine remolding. I screw my head off like a bottle cap. An extreme: after breaking the ice that’s formed at the surface, I plunge bone into crisp water, freezing pain. An extreme: the skull is sacrificed at a bonfire, flame screeching as it devours the wet pocket of pain. An extreme: fingers through eye holes, I bowl my disembodied skull down hardwood floors, disoriented pain shook free.”
The Offing • “(Landscape of) A Body”
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