The moment I got hired by Wellesley College, I knew this was a piece I wanted to write. going to Lake Baikal in 2007 changed my life and the lives of so many other alums of the program. Read the
I'm delighted to have a micro-essay (prose poem???) in the summer 2021 issue of Thimble Literary Magazine. Thank you to the editors for giving my and Richie's dead dogs a home in Vol. 4, No. 1. You can read
Past Ten publishes stories by artists and writers who reflect on where they were ten years ago. This spring, I wrote about June 14th, 2011 -- the last day I saw my Auntie Christine before she died. Click here to
For the full interview, see it on Full Stop.Published on June 9, 2021. — I first learned about Vince Granata’s memoir Everything Is Fine through my friend who is friends with one of Vince’s friends, and when I hopped on the phone with Vince, we
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on March 10, 2021. — Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and the essay collections Abandon Me and Girlhood. She also has a craft book forthcoming from Catapult in 2022. Febos was the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova
The first Wellesley Writes It interview of 2021 is up now on Wellesley Underground! Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, scholar, and a graduate of Wellesley College, class of 2008. Her debut collection of poetry, Arrow, was released in September 2020 with Alice James
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on December 9, 2020. — E. Dolores Johnson is the author of Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love. She was born in Buffalo, New York and has earned degrees from Howard University
For the full essay, see it on Fiction Advocate.Originally published on November 12, 2020. — Being more open about how and from who writers and artists receive support (financial, emotional, otherwise) is something that I care a lot about, and I am
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on October 8, 2020. — Amy Kurzweil is a writer and cartoonist. Her cartoons, comics, and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, New Yorker Daily Shouts, The Believer, The Toast, Spiralbound and Longreads, among others. She is the author of
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on September 15, 2020. — Sara Faith Alterman is the author of Let’s Never Talk About This Again: A Memoir. She’s written for The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and The Boston Globe, as well as the anthologies Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About