Happy first day of 2019, everyone! You know what that means: time for my annual reading tally for the past year. So, as is tradition, here is the breakdown of what I read in 2018, my top 18 books that were
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on December 10, 2018. — Tyrese Coleman is a writer, wife, mother, and lawyer. She is the author of How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays, published by Mason Jar Press in fall 2018. Coleman
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on November 19, 2018. — Dessa is a singer, rapper, writer, and proud member of the Doomtree hip-hop crew. She is the author of My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love,
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, I'm the new general nonfiction editor for the literary magazine Pangyrus, and I couldn't be more excited about it. Submissions will reopen in January 2019, and I can't wait to read your stuff. In
For the full piece, see it on The Millions. Published on September 18, 2018. — I am really excited to have this essay up today on The Millions because I am absolutely obsessed with Sy Montgomery's new memoir. Her book, How to Be a Good Creature: A
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on September 10, 2018. — Nicole Chung is the author of All You Can Ever Know (available from Catapult on October 2, 2018), a memoir about her experience as a Korean adoptee raised by white parents. Her
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on August 13, 2018. — Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection, This Will Be My Undoing. She graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Comparative Literature, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian literature and
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on July 16, 2018. — Diamond J. Sharp is a poet and essayist from Chicago. She has performed at Chicago’s Stage 773 and her work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio. She has been published in the New
For the full piece, see it on Electric Literature. Published on July 5, 2018. — I am so excited to have this piece up on Electric Literature today! In my three years interviewing writers for my Non-Fiction by Non-Men series on Fiction Advocate, I have learned
My summer classes at GrubStreet start very soon! If you are considering signing up, stop stalling and register today. Non-Fiction by Non-Men (Monday nights, 6pm-9pm, June 4th through August 6th) starts in less than a week. Intro to Creative Nonfiction: Online