One highlight of The University of Southern Maine MFA program is their annual talent show. When I was a student ten years ago, we enjoyed everything from clarinet recitals, hula hoop performances and … Continue reading >>
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I’ve written stories since I was a young child to my stint as high school yearbook editor. In high school I wrote a fiction column for the school paper. … Continue reading >>
All you need to make blackout poetry is imagination and the ability to let your mind take creative leaps with given text. Even my logical, engineer-minded husband enjoyed this project when we … Continue reading >>
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I create books that are all across the literary spectrum. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s being pigeonholed as a writer, so I like to mix it up and get readers wondering what I’ll come up … Continue reading >>
What:
I write poetry, novels, and screenplays, but I never intentionally set out to become a writer. Instead, I came into the world as a poet and storyteller, telling stories and making up rhymed … Continue reading >>
What:
I write short fiction: short stories and flash fiction. The cut-off between flash fiction and short stories, it seems, is one thousand words, according to literary journals, and my pieces are … Continue reading >>