Turning Points
Making Peace With My Writing Career One Walk at a Time
With every step, I realized I didn’t have to be juggling All The Things to be a worthwhile member of society. I just needed to exist.
Does Your Revision Process Need More Taylor Swift?
For all her various contrived public personas and her possibly manufactured cult following, Taylor Swift is a modern day poet.
What Nourishes Your Writing Ecosystem?
On the value of understanding the kind of ecosystem that will support and sustain the flourishing of our lives, on and off the page.
Finding an “I” in Indian Literature
It turns out all I want to find in literature, whether I write or read it, is a little piece of myself.
So, You’ve Finished Your Book
When my students finished a draft, all I wanted them to do was sit inside of it for longer than was comfortable. To acknowledge and celebrate what they’d accomplished.
As a Nurse and Writer, I Work Toward a Culture of Care
Despite how fruitless both nursing and writing can feel, I choose to engage with both.
Writing About Marriage When You Want to Stay Married
“I am posting a bulletin from the sanctuary behind that closed bedroom door.”
The First Time I Got Paid to Write
My first screenwriting gig, a skateboarding chimpanzee, and a hospital cancer ward.
Losing My Voice and Finding It
In the quiet forced upon me, I started to hear the voices of other selves.
How Solange and Morgan Parker Inspired Me to Write My Heroine
I thought I had to make myself smaller, quieter, in order to survive.