At Tin House Writer’s Workshop…attending creative nonfiction workshop with Stephen Elliott…Big fan of his work as well as his instruction style.
Have seen great readings: Wells Tower, a mind-blowing performance on said topic by Dorothy Allison, Elliott, etc…
Feels like I have found my tribe…
Two weeks ago, I attended a residency at Hambidge. Finished the final ten percent of UnReformed. Next up… revise, revise, revise.
Finishing fulfills the last promise I made Vic Chesnutt. I wish he were here every single day.
Three years ago, he wrote me a recommendation. Whenever I feel lost, he guides me back.
“She’s working on an ambitious psychological memoir project about her teenage years as a rebellious daughter of a Mississippi doctor sent off to a brutal Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. Now a schoolteacher with her own son in grade school and with the political tenor of the times, her story has a fresh relevance informing a shadowy current surging through fundamentalist Christianity in the American south.“
Wow, what a recommendation. Keep going… you can do it. xo