Theodicy
“About our bodies, strangers in white / deliver the news; in some places, the only option / is the option Mary had.”
Grace MacNair is a poet and healthcare professional living in Brooklyn, NY. She has received a Monson Arts
Residency and Fellowship and support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference,
Brooklyn Poets, and Hunter College. Grace was selected by Yona Harvey as the winner of Radar Poetry’s 2021
Coniston Prize, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Radar Poetry, Palette
Poetry, and elsewhere.
“About our bodies, strangers in white / deliver the news; in some places, the only option / is the option Mary had.”