Happy Publication Day, The Memory Sessions. I wrote my first bit of memoir without memory 13 years ago. I did not fathom at the time how a 1200-word essay for grad school would grow. Over the coming months, I’ll be speaking and writing about the process from first piece to publication. For now, today, I…
Jelly Bucket arrived today, bearing work by writers I have long admired and writers I have just met. My third essay exploring genetic microdeletions, titled "The Tiniest Boom," is included. Little by little, I hope to share views of this little-known world.
Typehouse is a lovely journal, its editors willing to offer substantial feedback. In Issue 17's table of contents, I keep company not with the creative nonfiction writers, but the poets. I'll still visit everyone in the issue, but this publication is different and gratifying. Both these poems—like my first two published poems, like much of…
My essay "If You Find a Mouse on a Glue Trap" (Brevity, September 2018) will be reprinted in Pushcart's annual anthology. When the email from Dinty W. Moore arrived yesterday, I read it more than a few times. More than a dozen, I think. It took that many readings to decode: "Your piece has been…
My whole career, twenty years now, has been in education. My love for and passion about writing—about all good writing and helping people figure out how to do it, no matter their purpose—partly overlaps with education and partly stands on its own. As a teacher, writer, shop daughter, and now a parent, I believe in…
