Last year, for the first time since I started attending the AWP conference (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in 2014, I didn’t have to staff a booth. Revisions were due on my forthcoming novel, I was training for a…
On November 3, 2022, I was part of a panel at the Inlandia Institute’s ArtsWalk event. My co-panelists were Carlos Cortes, Ellen Estilai, Terria Smith, and James Coates. We were moderated by the wonderful Minerva Canto Bunch. You can watch…
A new legal case claims Idaho’s transgender athlete ban makes sense if you frame it in Title IX terms. I was neck-deep in Title IX for months working on a museum exhibit. Here’s why that explanation fails.
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As I’m typing, I’m listening in on a room I wouldn’t have had much opportunity to step into before. It’s a room on digital accessibility, and it’s on Clubhouse. Access to great conversations that I didn’t know were going on…
In July, I started a new publication called Reads & Eats. (View it here.) Each month, I pen an essay about an American food I’m obsessed with, from club sandwiches to Long John Silver’s crumbly bits and everything in between….
Years ago, at my MFA program, a person who was considering joining the MFA test-drove a workshop. After, the new guy came up to me and said, “I just wanted to tell you, you’ve adjusted to life in America really…
This is part 6 of a multi-part series on Dolly Chugh’s The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias. Chugh writes about how to move from believing in good, with all of its slippery connotations, to building structures in our…
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Over Twitter a little while ago, the author Sequoia Nagamatsu posted this: I don’t have the same feelings Mr. Nagamatsu has about literary Twitter–I think I probably read Twitter with full knowledge that the medium is totally curated–but I think…
