M.L. Hedison is an emerging poet based in the coastal town of Wakefield, R.I. She is a former advertising creative director and writer. Her work explores themes of absence, longing, and her Armenian family through lyrical verse.

She has been writing poetry for four years and continues to study with Jennifer Franklin. M.L. was published for the first time in 2025.

2025

Everyone knows sex is for men

Silent Night

For Florence

devotion

my father’s afghan 

awakening

Three Brothers

Weekend with my nephew

2026

forthcoming

The Cimarron Review
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