Paula Brancato

Biography

Paula Brancato has been awarded the Danahy Fiction Prize, National Screenwriters Award, and Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Award. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and works as a financial advisor in New York City.

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POETRY / Spring 2016

We, Icarus

By Paula Brancato

My broker and I watched the markets drop, 
ticker crawling across the bottom of the Bloomberg screen, 
and salvaged what we could,
kept Microsoft, sold AXA, unwound