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Category: Issues
INTERVIEW: Janna Marlies Maron, Founding Editor of Under the Gum Tree, on Coordinating AWP Offsite Events
We speak to Janna Maron about organizing CNF-infused offsite events at the annual AWP conference.
INTERVIEW: Clancy Martin, Author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of a Suicidal Mind
If the line of work you’ve chosen involves emotional sensitivity, you have to be very careful with yourself.
INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances.
INTERVIEW: Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki, Author of Dancing Into the Light: An Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East
The book only goes to a certain point in my life, to where the lights went out in my life, and then restarted.
REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
REVIEW: Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins
The memoir in essays is a heartbreaking chronicle of a teenage daughter’s death by suicide.
WRITING LIFE: One Letter at a Time by Vanessa Stirling
A rhythm develops as I maneuver across five lanes of I-66.
going to iowa by Christine Fugate
There are two types of people who ride the train at three in the morning.
The Chronology of My Body by Josie Kochendorfer
When I am six, my nana begins taking me to her weekly Weight Watchers meetings.
