Shilo Niziolek

Shilo Niziolek is a writer based in Oregon. Her work has appeared in Broad River Review, Oregon Humanities Beyond the Margins, SLAB, and Clackamas Literary Review, among others. She has work forthcoming in BARNHOUSE and New Plains Review. Shilo is a candidate for an MFA in fiction and nonfiction from New England College.

Content by Shilo Niziolek

Cover art for the The Seas, which depicts an illustration of a crying mermaid.

Reviews,

The Seas: An Experience in Madness

BY Shilo Niziolek

The continual undercurrent of her inability to see properly, the sense that she believes it is love that is clouding her vision, brings me to understand more clearly the dissonance of the narration, that I only see what she can see, and what she sees is distorted by her own mental unstableness and by the reality which I know: that love and grief cloud my vision, that when I am swimming and open my eyes, my sight is blurry. What I think I see may be altogether different than what actually exists.