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All of Us Ghosts

"This is how ghosts represent trans people. Cactus Country made me realize nonbinariness was a spirit that wanted me to notice it," writes August Owens Grimm in their review essay of Zöe Bossiere's new memoir.
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The Writing Life: How Teaching Helped Me Reclaim My Voice

Olga Katsovskiy explores getting over the writer's block she faced after her dad's death through teaching others to "find the question that needs to be answered."
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Meeting the Complexity of Grief

Pam Anderson shows how B.J. Hollars takes on the complex task of writing about grief without sounding cliche or trite in his memoir, Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of Grief.
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The Power of Crafting Your Own Beginning: A Talk with Debut Author Suzette Mullen

Suzette Mullen shares how she stepped off the straight path of her life and onto the winding one that became her memoir.
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Truth, Shame, and Writing A Memoir

Jonathan Corcoran explores how shame and family secrets nearly prevented him from writing his memoir.
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The Journalist in Me: An Annotated Interview with Putsata Reang

By her own admission, Putsata Reang has an “insatiable appetite for research.”
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Bringing the Past Forward

Judy Goldman speaks with Stephanie Clare Smith about her memoir Everywhere the Undrowned and why the past is never behind us.
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When the Writing Is the Grieving

After the death of her husband, Dominque Conway reflects on words, grief, and writing.
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Whom Are We To Judge?

Michael Igoe explores writing about others and what it does to ourselves.
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You have to do what works for you.

A conversation with Sufiya Abdur-Rahman about her deeply reported and deeply personal memoir, Heir to the Crescent Moon.