Selected personal essays by Maria Bastidas, exploring grief, healing, identity, and meaning-making through lived experience.
✍️ Featured Essays
How I Found Joy after my Life Burned to The Ground
Elephant Journal— August 2021
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Riding the Wave of Grief after the Death of a Loved One
Elephant Journal — May 2021
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The World is Full of Childless Mothers.
Elephant Journal — May 2026
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Forthcoming & In Progress
Personal essays currently in development and under consideration by national digital publications.
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