Category: May-June 2022

INTERVIEW: Lizz Schumer, Author of Biography of a Body

I was drawn to lyrical, fragmented form of Lizz Schumer’s Biography of a Body …

Effective use of the hermit crab structure doesn’t have to be limited to standalone essays.

Was I ready to read writers’ celebratory tweets?

Like many fatherless daughters, myself included, Jayne Martin wasn’t without a father in the strictest sense of the term.

The collection offers multiple perspectives of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, told in short essays by soldiers, sisters, scholars, lovers and more.

Focusing on form, process, and hybridity, creative nonfiction guru Brenda Miller offers guidance and inspiration for writing the lyric essay.

The gray mattress the officer gave me almost slid out of my sweaty hands.

Tommy stabs at the air with adorable, chubby fingers. “Uck!” His eight-month-old torso goes rigid with excitement, then relaxes….

I sat alone on a chair in a soundproof booth…. Heavy headphones were placed on my head.

Six years old, I’m having a standoff with the small, polished red Advil my father gives me….

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