Marion Bishop

MARION BISHOP has a Ph.D. in English from New York University and has taught in New York, Chicago, and Boston. Her articles on women's journals and diaries include, most recently, the forthcoming "Confessional Realities: Body-Writing and the Diary of Anne Frank." Her essay "Hymn" appeared in the fall 1997 issue of Dialogue. Recently she left the east coast and teaching to return to school as an undergraduate science student in preparation for applying to medical school. She resides in Millville, Utah.

Hymn

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

Lately I can’t get over the feeling that there is a man in my bed: a big man with thick, wavy hair and a broad, barrel chest that goes up-and down, up-and-down all night long…

On Meditation

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 1

I used to run. Fast and furiously, always anxious, always thinking I should be quicker, go farther. I had friends who had run marathons and competed in 10Ks. I envied them and wanted to be like them: longer legs, faster times, thinner limbs. I counted calories and measured miles. I ran, but never liked it, didn’t like the way I beat myself up while I was running—”faster! faster!”—nor the fact that I dreaded the next run before the current one was even done.