Occupation: Writer Birth: 1977
I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature..
I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon..
On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them..
I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in….
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness..
One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came….
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejour….
I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our ….
Patriarchy is having the power to name..
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature.".
People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress..
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots..
People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the menta….
I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it..
I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to un….
I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!.
I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed..
It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize somet….
The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, ….
I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't ha….
The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable..