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.

Monday, October 11, 2010

What every writer needs



Every writer needs a great big Claes Oldenburg eraser, like this one. It's at the Enid Haupt Sculpture Garden . That's where I went the day after "Story/Stereo" at The Writer's Center in Bethesda.

Thanks Kyle, Sandra, and everyone at TWC for inviting me. Those of you in DC and the vicinity, get yourselves to The Writers Center! They have readings, classes, a theater, a library... muy impressive.

I had the immense pleasure of reading with poet Jenny Browne , and watching DJ Will Eastman do his stuff.

Went to dinner with old friends G., and N., and the next night with another old friend M, and his family!

What else. Got some museums in on Saturday. Did you know that Link Wray was Shawnee? I didn't until I heard "Rumble" coming out of an exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian .

The Writer's Center . That's what every writer needs. And an old-fashioned eraser for typewriters, only smaller than the sculpture, which is really tall.


PS Eraser photo by me and my cellular phone.

1 comments:

Susan Woodring said...

Sounds wonderful!

I DO need the Writers' Center...and that eraser!!