Confessions of an MFA application screener
DEARLY BELOVEDS IN THE MIDST OF THE STRESS-CLOUD THAT IS APPLYING FOR BIG AND SCARY THINGS. For the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of screening fiction applications for a high-ranking MFA...
View ArticleLeVar Burton Reads Live! was everything
…that I ever dreamed it could be, and more. Enormous thank you to everyone who came out to LeVar Burton Reads Live! at the Paramount on Sunday – it was beyond inspiring to share the stage as the guest...
View ArticleYou’ve just finished NaNoWriMo. Now what?
I’ve done National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, exactly one time. I was a sophomore in college, a creative writing major with energy and (in the icy, prefinals abyss that’s November in...
View ArticleUT Visiting Fiction Writer, spring 2019
Career news! I’m overjoyed to return to UT Austin this spring as its Visiting Fiction Writer. It’s an enormous honor, and I can’t wait to get back in the classroom and continue aggressively telling...
View ArticleHow to support authors this holiday season (without spending a dime)
The holidays! They’re stressful. They’re expensive. They transform every parking lot into a sixteenth level of Hell and every casual grocery trip into a guarantee you’ll have “Rockin’ Around the...
View ArticleThanks for listening, y'all!
2018 was truly wild: between the publication of my debut novel, getting married during a freak polar shift, returning to UT Austin to teach fiction writing, and curtseying in a vintage ballgown at One...
View ArticleThe surprising liberation of deeply bad reviews
In the wake of the literary world’s recent upheaval over That Article (and the comforting, salient-point responses from literary agents and established industry pros like Chuck Wendig and Malinda Lo),...
View ArticleFashion, feminism, and Frizzlepunk
When you think writer, pajama pants and nubbled sweatshirts may hop to mind faster than haute couture – but clothing is a hugely important mode of creative expression. I had an absolute blast chatting...
View ArticleLightspeed interview: Time travel, Ted Chiang, and the free will of a...
I was so delighted to chat with the brilliant Coral Alejandra Moore at Lightspeed about my new science fiction story, No Matter. This story came out of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’...
View Article2019 publications and year in review
It’s that time again, friends! As the decade draws to a close and we reflect on our collective sins, take a minute to think about what you’ve done that’s made you proud. The ways you’ve made the world...
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