About Me

Atlanta, Georgia, United States
My first book, "Invisible Sisters: A Memoir" has been named one of "Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read!" I would love to visit your bookclub, either in person (in the South) or through the magic of electronics. My writing has received a "Special Mention" for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. I have been honored with a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT., a Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and the 2009 Peter Taylor Nonfiction Fellowship at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Locally, I teach workshops in creative writing, memoir, and feature journalism, and am a member of the faculty of an art college, where I teach screenwriting. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) and a B.S. in Communication from Emerson College, in Boston. I used to work in television. I did not push the broom behind the elephant. Usually, I served as mahout - I drove the (allegorical) elephant. If he was SAG or AFTRA. Rock stars do not scare me.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Memoirs of Illness & Recovery


Check out Boldtype's list of what they call "sick lit" - illness and addiction memoirs. A very good dip into the genre, including more kudos for our friend Paul Guest, and one of the most important items in the canon, "Autobiography of a Face." (You're writing a memoir of any kind, you want to go read Lucy Grealy's book. Go. Now.)

There are so many more to add to this list, like "Intoxicated By My Illness" by Anatole Broyard, or "On Being Ill" by Virginia Woolf, but start here if you're new to the genre. Or if you're not!
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