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Ashley Makar

Killing the Buddha editor Ashley Makar is a writer who is working towards a Master of Divinity, Religion and the Arts, at Yale Divinity School. She is currently developing a prison project for KtB and working on non-fiction writing about Sudanese refugees who have migrated from Egypt to Israel. She has published essays in The Birmingham News, American Book Review, Search, and Prison Legal News. She thanks the goddess of door hinges for the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers Workshop and repents not her trespasses through the Irish bogs of Connemara.

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Heaven Is the Common Denominator

Heaven Is the Common Denominator

by Ashley Makar
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Imagining Prisons

Imagining Prisons

by Ashley Makar

From a Protestant monastery to the prison-industrial complex.

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This Is All One Colon

This Is All One Colon

by Ashley Makar

Grappling with James Agee’s punctuation, one hundred years after his birth.

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Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead

by Ashley Makar
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James Agee’s Aperture of Awe

James Agee’s Aperture of Awe

by Ashley Makar
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The Sapphire in Hildegard’s Wine

The Sapphire in Hildegard’s Wine

by Ashley Makar
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Better Than a Thousand Months

Better Than a Thousand Months

by Ashley Makar

The holiest night of the year for a Nuyorican Muslim.

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What Would Plato Do for Labor Day?

What Would Plato Do for Labor Day?

by Ashley Makar
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Christian, for All Intents and Purposes

Christian, for All Intents and Purposes

by Ashley Makar

Unpacking religious baggage in Jerusalem.

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<em>Believer, Beware</em> in Transit

Believer, Beware in Transit

by Ashley Makar
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Corpse Posing to ‘Beat It’

Corpse Posing to ‘Beat It’

by Ashley Makar
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Heart Failure

Heart Failure

by Ashley Makar

Jesus on the cross is one thing, but her father is another.

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Ash Wednesday Already

Ash Wednesday Already

by Ashley Makar

How’s a girl supposed to go about mourning in a world like this?

 
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