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Denise Mostacci Sklar<br />

Biography<br />

Denise Mostacci Sklar grew up exploring the stormy mystery, rocky ruggedness of her<br />

North Shore, New England coast. As a young woman, she took off to be a modern dancer<br />

in Manhattan, apartment overlooking the Hudson River. She has had the good fortune<br />

to discover writing as another way to move through life and particularly enjoys the<br />

stillness…waiting for words to make an entrance. She currently lives in Hamilton, MA<br />

and occasionally travels to far away lands when waters call.<br />

Holly Day<br />

Letters<br />

It’s just starting to get cold enough outside that I have to keep a pair of gloves handy by<br />

my desk in order to write. They’re nice gloves, though, fingerless gloves made out of yak<br />

wool that I spun and crocheted myself in the warm part of the house. I honestly can’t say<br />

enough about how pleasant it is to feel yak fur against one’s skin, especially when working<br />

in a 40-degree basement office—these gloves always make me want to run away to<br />

Mongolia, where I can spend all day petting yaks and camels and those adorable little wild<br />

horses I always see in movies about Mongolia.<br />

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