From lithub.com via Steerforth Press: How Working at a Grocery Store Helped Me Become a Better Writer Karleigh Frisbie Brogan is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She was a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow and a 2022 Rona Jaffe Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Vol. 1 …
From LitHub: Chelsea Martin on Accepting Her Writing Voice Chelsea Martin is the author of the essay collection Caca Dolce, the novella Mickey, and the novel Tell Me I’m an Artist. She lives in Spokane, WA.
From lithub.com September 7, 2022 by Cai Emmons At eight years old I began writing poetry. I loved the sounds of words, and I loved stringing them together, often nonsensically. I liked the solitude of writing, the secrecy, the fact that I was in control. I did it knowing that poetry carried little weight in …
From lithub.com, by Charles Johnson . . . On November 11, 1991, I had the privilege and pleasure of reading with Marshall at the Poetry Center in NYC. I felt it was an honor because I’d long been an admirer of her novel Brown Girl, Brownstones, published in 1959 when I was 11 years old. …
LAURIE FRANKEL: BEING A GIRL IS HARD BUT AWESOME published on LitHub March 2, 2018 In my twenties, in graduate school, I thought a lot about my daughter. She didn’t exist yet, but when you’re studying fiction for a living, this doesn’t matter as much. I had long observed that being a girl in the …
DAVE BOLING FOLLOWS A THREAD OF FAMILY HISTORY TO TELL UNTOLD STORIES by Dave Boling, from LitHub June 23, 2017: It’s a typical conversation-starter for authors: “What are you writing about these days?” My answering, “the Anglo-Boer War,” triggered a typical response. The interrogators would tilt their head and nod, buying time to find a …
