Mairead Small Staid is the author of The Traces (A Strange Object, 2022). She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the 2017–2018 George Bennett Fellow. Her essays have appeared widely, including in AGNI, The Believer, and The Paris Review. She lives in Minnesota.

Mairead Small Staid

“Billionaires Glamping in Space”: A Conversation with Rebecca Scherm

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Stories I Forgot to Tell You

Here We Are

Speaking with the Dead

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Mairead Small Staid is the author of The Traces (A Strange Object, 2022). She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the 2017–2018 George Bennett Fellow. Her essays have appeared widely, including in AGNI, The Believer, and The Paris Review. She lives in Minnesota.