Oct 22, 2019
What I Learned When I Set Out to Write an “Authentic” Latina Character
Latinidad, to me, was like a shrunken sweater. I never wanted to get rid of it, but I couldn’t imagine how it would possibly fit.
Women Writing About Complicated Desire Saved Me When the Evangelical Church Couldn’t
What I’d been looking for at the convent, I could find in reading and writing. If other writers could channel their desires, I could use it, too.
Oct 15, 2019
So, You’ve Finished Your Book
When my students finished a draft, all I wanted them to do was sit inside of it for longer than was comfortable. To acknowledge and celebrate what they’d accomplished.
Oct 03, 2019
My Father Wishes He Were a Writer, Like Me
Writing was just something I thought happened to people naturally, that whatever wasn’t written was eventually forgotten. And I wanted to remember everything.
May 09, 2019
As a Nurse and Writer, I Work Toward a Culture of Care
Despite how fruitless both nursing and writing can feel, I choose to engage with both.
Mar 21, 2019
As a Disabled Writer, I Know My Stories Are Worth Telling
These worlds I dearly love, with science-fiction that supersedes the science in our reality, deserve Smart Drives and automatic doors and disabled heroes, too.
Feb 14, 2019
Every Day is a Writing Day, With or Without an MFA
There are far more writers ringing up your groceries, writers pulling your daily espresso shot, writers in the laundries of hotels and security tagging jeans at the mall and filling your prescriptions and pouring your beer into a clean cold glass.
Nov 27, 2018
Don’t Submit. Pitch.
Writers, take note: A submission says, please pick me, I’ll be waiting. A pitch says, catch me or you’ll miss the ball.
Sep 17, 2018
The Tides of Success: A Two-Artist Marriage Confessional
You loved his talent first. You hope that he will not love you less, for all that you do not now achieve.
Sep 06, 2018
Portrait of the Author as a Woman with Adult Acne
Will my face betray me when it’s time to talk about my book in public?
May 24, 2018
A Memoirist’s Terror & Insight: Writing My Ex-Husband on the Page
I wasn’t looking for pretty stories. I wanted messy, ugly, honest secrets.
May 09, 2018
How Publishing My First Novel at Twenty-Five Almost Ruined Me for Life
I thought I was the exception to every rule about writing being a hard living. I got exactly what I deserved.
Mar 27, 2018
On Envy, the MFA, and Writing Under Capitalism
“No one had told me to prepare myself for this—for wanting what someone else had.”
Mar 19, 2018
