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brooklyn-based black biracial writer, creative nonfiction teacher, artist. founder of how i learned series. i’m tired tomorrow.
Professional Word Nerd. Unprofessional Succulent Gardener. Irish Goodbye Enthusiast. Sometime Donkey Rescuer. Longtime Tea Drinker. Foul-Mouthed Heathen. Former Goth Girl. Current Frumpy Person. Aspiring Bog Witch.
Mother Is a Place (Dopamine Books September, 2026). I offer individual manuscript reviews and editing services, as well as private writing workshops. I have been teaching creative writing for twenty years.
All language is but a poor translation :))
Deep thoughts and petty bullshit about pop culture and the human condition by journalist and essayist Vivian Manning-Schaffel. Words in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, etc., etc. GenXXX. Inherently unbothered.
Adaeze Elechi is a writer, filmmaker, and author of the chapbook HARMATTAN
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Reader and writer, blogging at www.thisunquietmind.com
Reynolds, when she still had the energy of youth and middle age, was a teacher, writer, editor, falconer. Her recent work can be found in Dorothy Parker's Ashes: 2024 Issues on Secrets, Water, Husbands, Wounds, Cops.
Sean writes personal essays about memory, fatherhood, identity, and the moments that bend a life sideways.
A Zimbabwean-born artist currently based in Minneapolis, MN. His work navigates the intersection of the African experience with U.S. culture and attempts to create meaning in the contradiction created as the two cultures converse with one another.
Writer, mother, Cleveland native; my garden and my mastiff keep me sane.
Michael Barrish was a writer & web developer. He died in 2023 of complications from a rare, aggressive form of early-onset dementia. How I Learned Series periodically reprints select stories from his old website Oblivio.
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