I’m a mentee in We Write to Empower, a writing mentorship specifically designed to pair published authors with emerging writers to develop meaningful work about trauma. I will be working with author and poet Robin Gow on my novel-in-verse about losing my mom to opioid crisis when I was a kid.
Tag: loss
I Write Because I Want My Mom’s Death to Mean Something
March 16 marked the twentieth anniversary of my mom’s death. It’s a strange fact to realize how much time has passed, how much my life changed, how much she is missing. I’ve spoken about her many times on my blog and across other social media channels, most recently in the context of writing a middle… Continue reading I Write Because I Want My Mom’s Death to Mean Something
#WW My Next Publication: Two Books, Release Dates, and More.
Last week, I announced that I signed November Snow with Clean Teen Publishing, and as promised, I'm releasing additional information today. The original version of November Snow that was published in 2007 was 600 pages. That being said, the rewrite is actually longer than the original, so Clean Teen Publishing has split November Snow into a two-part… Continue reading #WW My Next Publication: Two Books, Release Dates, and More.
To My Mother
“Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane.” ~Hope Edelman This quote has always struck a deep chord within me, not only because I am a writer, but because this was my mother's philosophy. On top of that, Hope Edelman… Continue reading To My Mother
