Mira is a writer and contributing editor at Mute. She lives in south east London. http://hermouth.blogspot.co.uk / @her_mouth.
Read Mira Mattar's story, "Homemaker," published in this magazine in July 2012.
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies