Vela Writers On: Storytelling
Where do fictional characters come from; what does it mean to bear witness; is information the death of story? In three short essays, Vela…
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Lilac Stitches
I met my future stepmother in a Leningrad subway when I was eight. Luda was a twenty-year-old transplant from a small Ukrainian town…
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It’s Not Personal
This past fall, I went with seven other third-year nonfiction MFA students from the University of Pittsburgh to New York to pitch editors…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Janet Steen’s “Is the Personal Essay Hipper than Thou?” in…
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