Writing About Family: Lessons
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by considering lessons learned over a lifetime.
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Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by considering lessons learned over a lifetime.
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by imagining fictive dialogues.
The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.
Before the author of Barnflower was a writer, she was a farm kid. The memoirist shares moments from her book tour, which included meeting cows and visiting corn mazes alongside reading at local bookstores and reconnecting with friends.
“That I’ve never expected this work to be fast or easy is a priceless gift, my saving grace.” —Bret Anthony Johnston, author of We Burn Daylight
“I think the arc of writing a poem is similar to the experience of ascending and descending physical terrain.” —Callie Siskel, author of Two Minds
The author of Yaguareté White explores the poetic art of balancing fact and fiction.
The author of Yaguareté White contemplates how to approach writing in multiple languages.
“For every book, different literary angels perch on my shoulder.” —Tomás Q. Morín, author of Where Are You From: Letters to My Son
“Don’t stop writing, no matter what.” —Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures