Writer, Lover of Books.
I am in awe of the impact Ivelisse Rodriguez’s short-story collection Love War Stories had on me as a reader. Ivelisse got me laughing and crying and spitting mad. She also had me wanting to study her text for clues, connections, and themes like it was a university seminar. The writer in me kept asking, how? I had the great honor of interviewing Ivelisse for Split Lip Magazine to try to answer this question. Read our conversation here.
I am delighted to have two poems in Harvard Review this month, one in their gorgeous new print issue and the other online. I am so grateful to the editors at HR for including me alongside so many authors I admire and for taking such care with all of our work. I hope you will […]
I started writing a post about the profound and overwhelming sadness I’ve felt since the election. But writing that post felt too profoundly and overwhelmingly sad! Impossible even. Then, somehow, I ended up here instead, putting together a gigantic gift guide for writers and readers. I’m so angry at the capitalist machine that brought us […]
