When my mother dies, I will start drinking again. It won’t be out of grief. I’m confident I have the strength to handle adversity sober from the four and a half years I haven’t picked up a drink.
Elise Lasko
Elise Lasko is a North Carolina-based writer. She studied poetry as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University before completing her MFA in Nonfiction at Bennington. She has been published in Triangle House, Nashville Arts Magazine, NATIVE, and Asheville Made, among others. Most recently, Elise has completed a collection of memoir essays that explores the influence of grief on intimacy, physical pain, addiction, and recovery.