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No, RFK Jr., my autistic kids did not destroy my family
I write poetry for a living. This may surprise Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., because I am also autistic. On April 16, the Health and Human Services Secretary called…
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One-Sentence Stories from the middle schoolers at MMS
It was a blast visiting with the middle schoolers at MMS for a writing workshop! The students produced some wonderful work based on sensory memories or major “incidents”…
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The Story Accordion: Developing novel-length story arcs
They’re long. It’s ridiculous how long they are, right? I was in high school workshopping five-page short stories and sixteen-line poems when I decided the time had come…
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“Not a good fit for me right now”: Surviving the query trenches
querying literary agents It’s that first hurdle to traditional publishing. It takes years, racks up several dozen gigs of email storage, and makes all authors cry at least…
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Bye Bye, Birdie: A Farewell to Twitter
I loved you, you know. Maybe it was infatuation. I’d heard a lot about you in grad school. You’d just come on the scene, and friends of mine…
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Feature article on disability access in public libraries published
For my latest Publishers Weekly article, “Access for All at the Public Library,” I interviewed librarians from around the country about how they welcome disabled people to use…
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