Arielle M. DeVito

Arielle M. DeVito

Arielle M. DeVito is an agency assistant at Jabberwocky Literary Agency, and a recent graduate of Stanford University, where she studied English and Creative Writing. Her work has previously been published in Broken Antler Magazine, Gramarye, and the Spotlong Review. She’s hoping someday to put her juggling, unicycling, and aerial skills to good use by running away to join the circus, but until then she keeps herself entertained sewing historical clothing and playing the accordion with her wife and cat, Peppercorn, in Philadelphia. You can also find her at her website, ariellemdevito.com. Arielle recommends that people go to https://native-land.ca/ and donate to their local Indigenous tribe.

I always hated the city, its right angles and flat surfaces. I couldn’t wait to move away. I read The Secret Garden and Anne of Green Gables and eventually Thoreau and Muir and I loved the storybook pictures of the tiny rural colleges I applied to...

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