Maura Alia Badji’s poem about a sister, a brother, and a jock strap is funny and, in a surprising way, tender.
Maura Alia Badji
About Maura Alia Badji
Maura Alia Badji’s poems and essays have appeared in Barely South Review, Cobalt, ArtVoice Buffalo, Switched-on Gutenberg, Exhibition, convolvulus, Spillway, teenytiny, Signals, The Buffalo Times, and The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of WA, Seattle, where she was an Editorial Assistant at The Seattle Review. She has taught Special Education classes, poetry workshops, and was a migrant tutor/advocate. A NY State native, she lives in the Seven Cities region of Virginia with her 11 year old son.