Mairead Small Staid is the author of The Traces (A Strange Object, 2022). Born and raised in Massachusetts, she is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of Michigan, where she won Hopwood Awards in poetry and nonfiction. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the 2017-2018 George Bennett Fellow. Her work has appeared widely, including in The Atlantic, The Believer, and The Paris Review. She lives in Minnesota.

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A postscript for event organizers: the name rhymes with ‘parade.’