Last month, I went on my very first post-graduate school writing retreat, and let me tell you… IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED. On a whim, I clicked on some contest to win a free room for up to five days at the When Words Count retreat in Vermont. It seemed kind of fishy at… Read more »
Posts Categorized: The Writer’s Life
This Year. (Writer Edition)
I will hand in my thesis. I will finish my MFA. I will have a finished draft to St. Nicholas Girls. I will begin a year-long search for an agent. I will publish How to Grieve, the book I wrote after my dad died. I will publish Enfermos, a collection of my short stories. I… Read more »
Writing in White Spaces
When I first started my MFA program back in 2005, I was very aware of being one of very few black faces in the crowd. It had been that way for me as an undergrad, but with my MFA, I was concerned that my professors and classmates wouldn’t “get” my work because they didn’t know… Read more »