Faith Palermo is a writer from Eastern Massachusetts. She is a MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at George Mason University and the Nonfiction Editor at Phoebe. She is currently working on her thesis, a collection of essays investigating the different ways that radiation has seeped into our environments over time, highlighting the impact of modern scientific research on lived experiences.

Faith is currently seeking volunteers to be interviewed for oral history projects involving the Sellafield Nuclear site (Cumbria, England) and the radiation experiments conducted at the Fernald School (Waltham, MA).

Writer & Researcher

Publications

2024

braided essay; Sūdō Journal

flash nonfiction; Mulberry Literary

2024

2024

lyric essay; Write or Die

2024

flash nonfiction; Unstamatic

2023

lyric essay; The Hyacinth Review

Pieces Forthcoming

2025

(Landscape of) A Body

How to Convince Your Peers That Your Friend, the One Who Writes Haunting Things, Licked a Wall in a Public Place

2025

lyric essay; The Offing

list essay; Puerto del Sol

Awards and Fellowships

2024

2024

Provost Research Fellow

Interviews and Moderations

Upcoming October 16: Moderation of “Navigating Identity Across Language, Space, and Time” panel featuring Ani Gjika (An Unruled Body) and Grace Loh Prasad (The Translator’s Daughter) for Fall for the Book literary festival

2024

Introduced and interviewed Alyssa Graybeal (author of Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World) for Fall for the Book literary festival

2023