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Il Medico Della Peste

Shayla Lawson

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything describes something else."

-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972



 Shayla Lawson is the nonfiction editor of Indiana Review and author of A Speed Education in Human Being. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Winter Tangerine, MiPOesias, and inter|rupture, among others. She is the recipient of Sou'Wester's Robbins Poetry Award and teaches for Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.

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