Author interview, and other quick updates

I haven't been blogging at all recently, because too much has been happening.

But briefly, my biggest writing life update is that I gave my first-ever author interview! Megan Lear, my interviewer at Colorado Review,  was an absolute star, and asked me about so many topics that I care about - from the place of play in my creative life, to the radical uses of memory in  nonfiction and memoir writing. I enjoyed giving this interview so much, and feel pleased to see it out in the world... in general, it has been really heartening for me to see the impact that "The Story of Body" has on other readers and writers! It makes me feel glad that I pushed through the struggles of the past three years, to write the piece.

I hope that you might enjoy reading the interview - please let me know if you do!

Some other lit-life updates are:

• Exposition Review just published its incredible annual issue! Click here to read it -  working with the lovely Expo team has been one of the highlights of my literary year, and I'm so proud to have contributed to the selection of pieces in this issue!
• I've started a 12-week mentorship program with the AWP, working with Lily Hoang to whip my manuscript into shape. What an amazing experience it has been - Lily is so brilliant and I am so lucky.
• Next week, I'm off to Portugal for my first-ever writer's conference with Disquiet... I'm nervous! And curating my outfits meticulously in the lead-up to flying, lol. But I'm also very excited to grow as a writer, and hopefully make some new friends.

As a general life update, I post a lot about my writing life on Instagram nowadays - something in me has shifted, and this feels easier for me than blogging at the moment.

I hope that everyone is having a lovely summer!