writing wild. writing holy. writing free.
mai cortez doan is a writer, facilitator, and certified grief and death doula. mai creates spaces for processing grief and teaches writing as a creative practice to deepen self-connection and reclaim our inherent belonging — to ourselves, our stories, and the earth.
She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her dog, Story.
Recent Blog Posts
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Turning to the Earth in Grief
Our experiences of loss and grief have the potential to expand our awareness and connect us back to the universal cycles and the bigger-than-us wisdom and intelligence that is constantly unfolding within and around us.
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Repairing the Heart Song
Being a living being with all of the wounding that life can bring is made more possible when we are graced with the softness of presence that comes from those who can see us.
water/tongue
A 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry
“How many ways can we be killed by being forced to fit into a world we didn’t ask for? Here is a poetics of of the trace, of the unpronounced events reverberating on a sparsely marked page, in the space between the cracked house that leaks memory: a girl running. What is the speaker to do with the weight of what her ancestors have lived through? Repatriate the severed tongue. Build a politics of ritual, of hair and rose petals at the bottom of an empty bathtub. mai c. doan’s powerful book water/tongue is written from the position of being in, but not of, this monstrosity we call America. And they would rather stutter than be folded into the Empire."- Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism
