After Jennifer S. Cheng 1: the sea captured in a glass 2: a homophone for having enough for leftovers, a synonym for abundance 3: the fish, who have already forgotten you. It’s not personal 4: where memory fails, there’s still imagining 5: you. Not as an ocean but outside 6: glass and/or acrylic
Read MoreERIN ADAIR-HODGES is the winner of the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett prize for Let’s All Die Happy (University of Pittsburgh, 2017). Winner of The Georgia Review’s Loraine Williams prize, she’s also been a Bread Loaf-Rona
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I think there’s a sort of connection to the kinds of stories I write now and
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I read more fiction than nonfiction. Having said that, I think people, all of us, are
Mom thinks a pet would cure my melancholia. I’m not sure. Right now, we’re sitting in her car in the pet store parking lot. She won’t go in because my sister Becca’s
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? As a writer, I prefer creative nonfiction because I simply lack the creativity to make up
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write that interests you/draws you in? When I was in the third grade, I wrote a poem for Danny, the shiest human
I’m just starting to make caramel in my parents’ kitchen in New Jersey when my mother pulls a great big hamper of laundry up to the counter across from me and starts
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to the immediacy and rawness of poetry. I like getting caught up in the
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I write in all genres, and I’m often most interested in the similarities and differences between
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