Category: Nonfiction
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“How Novelists Recover History’s Marginalized Heroes”, GrubWrites, July 2016
I started off as a fiction writer with one goal and one goal only: create and bring to life protagonists from off the beaten path. I wanted complex, accurate portrayals of LGBTQ people. People of color. Poor people. People living with disabilities or without families or struggling with PTSD.
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“The Death of a Great Vol. 6: Katherine Dunn (1945-2016)”, GrubWrites, July 2016
There’s something downright otherworldly about coming across a fantastic book exactly at the time you need its message most. Once upon a midnight, I struggled with my queerness. Not so much knowing whether or not I was in the spectra, but rather grappling with what this meant for my worth as a person. I would…