This collection of 28 poems by Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer won second place in Stone Soup Magazines 2019 Book Contest. Shrayer's Searching for Bow and Arrows is about the weight of history-one's own personal, familial history as well as the history of politics and nations-and a nostalgic longing for a homeland that both is and isn't home. In her spare, formal poems, Shrayer probes the thin veil between the past and present, focusing on the natural world as a bridge between the two: "Drops / of saltwater / arranged / like letters / on an ancient scroll."
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Born in 2007 in Boston, Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer is a seventh-grader at the Michael Driscoll School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her original poems, essays, and translations of Russian poetry have appeared in Amazing Kids, Creative Kids, Four Centuries, and Stone Soup Magazine. In 2019 she won second place in the Stone Soup book contest. She plays violin and trumpet and lives with her older sister and parents in Brookline and South Chatham.