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
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 interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on November 17, 2020. — Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the memoir Mean, a New York Times editors’ choice. O, The Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all
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 July 14, 2020. — Marcia Trahan is the author of Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession. She earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Vermont and a
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on June 16, 2020. — Meredith Talusan is an award-winning transgender author, journalist, and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Prospect, BuzzFeed, and Vice. She is the founding
For the full essay, see it in Wellesley Magazine.Originally published in the spring 2020 issue. — Writing memoir is a messy business, and no one knows this better than Helen Fremont ’78. Fremont’s book The Escape Artist serves as a sequel of sorts to her memoir After
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on February 11, 2020. — Liz Scott is the author of This Never Happened: A Memoir and Lies: The Truth about the Self-Deception That Limits Your Life. Her essays have been published on The Millions, the Powell’s Book Blog, and The Next Best Book
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on January 14, 2020. — Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, the 2018 Chautauqua Prize, the
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on December 10, 2019. — Cinelle Barnes is a memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Little A, 2018) and Malaya: Essays on Freedom (Little A, 2019), and the editor