 She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew. Portrait by Brian Belew. |
My essay, “An Empire in Words” has been published by Strange Horizons, an online journal that I’ve been lucky enough to have my work in several times — and now in all genres! I originally wrote “An Empire in Words” for an MFA nonfiction workshop, taught by the excellent Cathleen Miller. After it went through the [...] All Things Considered, which, along with Morning Edition, makes up the entirety of my non-satiric news consumption, is having a short story contest. Stories for the “Three-Minute Fiction” contest have to be no more than 600 words and based on the photograph at the link. I’m intending to write something for it, but, unfortunately, the [...] December marked the second year since I finished my coursework for my Master of Fine Arts degree. Milestones, arbitrary as they might be, can be stressful, can make you ask yourself uncomfortable questions. How far have I come? Am I successful at what I set out to be successful at? I read stories about a [...] I’ve been going through my grad school notes, deciding what to keep and what to dispose of. On many of my notes are little sketches of scenes in class that I would write when something struck me as interesting, absurd, or annoying. Here’s one I just found, written in November 2004 in my 18th-Century British [...] I’m fascinated by the old “countries separated by a common language” aspect of British and American culture, the way we regard each other’s accents and usage. I admit I am fairly appalled every time I see or hear the British usage “different to.” That preposition doesn’t make any sense! One activity I find fun (and this [...] |
 The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics) by Charlotte Brontë  Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut  Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood  Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle And Sebastian Anthology by Image Comics, Jamie S. Rich, Marc Ellerby, Jennifer De Guzman, Brian Belew, Mark Andrew Smith  East of Eden by John Steinbeck  The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto  The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil |
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