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Two Events @ AWP2023!

So honored to represent Mineral School at a AWP Off-site event on Friday, March 10, 5-7pm at Seattle University. Can’t wait to reunite with the wonderful peeps of this special writing retreat.

And! At our panel discussion “Impossible Balance” on Saturday, March 11, 3:20-4:35pm (Room 327, Summit Bldg), I’ll finally get to meet one of my Orion writing group members John Messick, who has a new book out Compass Lines by Porphyry Press, which I’ll definitely be picking up at the conference book fair.

Hope to see some friendly faces in the coming days!

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Counting down for #AWP23 @ Seattle!

The last time I was at AWP, I was still in graduate school, renting an apartment, and unsure about what came next post-MFA. Italy won the World Cup, and Gnarls Barkley was top of the charts with “Crazy.” It’s been more than awhile (17 years–ouch!), so much so, that I’m now a mother, a professor, a homeowner, who still feels just as lost with so much still up in the air only now I get to chat about this lostness and all the many balls in the air with fellow parent-writers. I am both nervous and truly excited to be sharing a panel discussion with fellow writers John Messick, Keema Waterfield, Sean Prentiss, and Ukamaka Olisakwe.

For those attending AWP, I hope you can join us at this panel “Impossible Balance” on Saturday, March 11, 3:20-4:35pm (Room 327, Summit Bldg), where we attempt to put into our words the crazy-making, acrobatic experiences of parenting [small children] and writing [during the pandemic]. I would love to catch up and meet fellow writers, readers, and lovers of word in Seattle, so please drop me a line and see you there!