Have you ever had the experience of not quite knowing how certain elements of your own experience might fit together in story, but knowing that they DO go together, and they SHOULD? That was the experience I had in writing what would become the titular story of my short story collection (currently out on submission), “Dream Studies.” This story, based … Read More
Your Identity as a Writer
This week I’m celebrating one of those little wins in the writing life: An acceptance from StoryQuarterly. This is for a story from my collection, Dream Studies, which is currently out on submission—and while other stories in the collection have been published in some lovely places, this acceptance marks the largest and most established market I’ve cracked thus far with … Read More
Confederate Monuments Are Falling, and the White Man In the Sky Has Finally Come Down
Y’all, something AMAZING happened last week: the statue of John C. Calhoun in downtown Charleston, SC–where my husband is from, and where we lived from 2016 to 2018–was taken down, in recognition of its racist history. As my brother-in-law recently explained it online, “Calhoun was a pro-slavery White supremacist, who also had a career as a politician. He was the … Read More
Original Fiction: The Hunger from the Deep
I ducked into Hutson Alley, my heart pounding in my chest—not because of the caterwauling of fire trucks, though their sirens filled the city streets, and not because I feared the citizenry would soon run to riot, though they stood on the sidewalk in nervous knots, clutching their handheld devices. No, I ducked into the alley, my heart pounding in … Read More
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