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Larissa Shmailo

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Larissa Shmailo's new book is Dora / Lora, a poetry collection about the mass starvation in the Ukraine in the 1930s and the role of Ukrainian collaborators in the Nazi death camps seen through the lens of one family. Her latest self help book is the Writing Resilience Workbook, a book of prompts desgned to elicit elements of the writer's story and form the basis of a memoir. Larissa is the leader and writing coach for the Writing Resilience Workshop for writers and aspiring writers affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness. Larissa's most recent novel is Sly Bang (Spuyten Duyvil); her first novel is Patient Women (BlazeVOX). Her poetry collections are Dora / Lora (Unlikely Books), Medusa’s Country (MadHat), #specialcharacters (U ...more

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Patient Women

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A Cure for Suicide

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In Paran

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Writing Resilience Workbook

It's here! I am pleased to announce the publication of Writing Resilience Workbook. Writing Resilience Workbook is a distillation of the best prompts from my Writing Resilience workshop, designed to elicit your story, the pains and triumphs, and give you the basis of a memoir. It was inspired by people who are affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness, but the book may be used by anyone Read more of this blog post »
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The Color Between the Hours
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“The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line. ---Rollo May”
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“The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.”
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Larissa Shmailo Maureen wrote: "Hi Larissa, thanks for adding this fellow writer to your circle of friends. Looking forward to your book reviews/recommendations. Happy reading!"

Thanks for the friendship, Maureen!


Maureen Mullis Hi Larissa, thanks for adding this fellow writer to your circle of friends. Looking forward to your book reviews/recommendations. Happy reading!


Bradley Hello Larissa, pleasant afternoon. =)


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