No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances.
INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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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.
WRITING LIFE: Book Midwifery by Diane Zinna
I can see the book crowning.
INTERVIEW: Mary Helen Stefaniak, Author of The Six-Minute Memoir
I hate to call the essays upbeat, because a lot of them are about serious and sad things. But they still somehow convey that I’m alive and well…
INTERVIEW: Ann Batchelder, Author of Craving Spring
Anyone who has struggled with caring for a child will find a friend in Ann.
REVIEW: Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness by Robert Lunday
A deeply researched essay collection examines the complexity of loss and closure.
REVIEW: Touched Out by Amanda Montei
A hybrid of memoir, cultural criticism and theory explores themes of motherhood, misogyny, consent, and control.
