We are thrilled to highlight one of our talented WGI Writers: M.S. Marquart! She participated in workshops with our partner, #MEAction Network.
M. S. Marquart is a disabled, mixed race Asian American writer whose poetry explores the impacts of chronic illness, disability, and the issues that intersect with them. She seeks to shed light on the hidden daily lives of the millions of people with long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, ME/CFS), who are often home-bound and missing from society, suffering from disabilities that currently have no cure.
Below is one of her many poems, “Existence while hoping for a cure (#MillionsMissing). Published in Lombardi Voices (Volume 21, Winter 2024), pages 42-43. Find more of her work here.
May is National ME Awareness Month. ME/CFS or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is a complex chronic disease that presents with symptoms in multiple body systems.
