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Writing = Making and Solving Problems

Hari Alluri Reconnected with the Source Code
I’ve worked outdoors quite a bit in my lifetime, and if you walk around with a rake, you will find things to rake up. If you have a sonnet, you’ll find…
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Abbie Kiefer Had to Figure out Why Television Was Important to a Book About Grief and Hope
At the center of this book are my mom’s illness and death—a process of loss that made me easily distracted. I couldn’t write or read, so I stuck to what…
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A.E. Osworth Had Planned to Write a Romp
This book was supposed to be fun (and don’t worry, I think it turned out fun in the end). But I was inputting a huge amount of pandemic news every day…
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Nancy Reddy Grabbed a Stack of Index Cards and a Roll of Painter's Tape
The index cards forced a measure of economy, since I couldn’t explain the nuance of a study or wax poetic, and taping them up meant I could easily move…
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Bronwen Tate
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Nancy Reddy
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Lois Eustis Tate Needed to Be More Forthcoming About Who She Was
I began by working on the level of the scene, learning those building blocks. I wrote scenes from Wayne’s point of view, based on events he described in…
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Lois Tate
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Bronwen Tate
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Holly Flauto Got Tired of Filling in the Blanks with the "Right" Answer
The answers to the blanks on the immigration application have burst out of their normal official structures into poems—each one stretching out in a…
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Anna Henderson Was Finally Able to Drop the Shark
I bring readers into the research and discovery process of science and behind the scenes in the work of politics. I wrote the book with my old field…
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Bronwen Tate
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Anna Farro Henderson
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Oliver Baez Bendorf Was Awakened by the Rooster's Crow
The collection explores ecological consciousness and the construction of criminality, asking who is entitled to peace and who faces scrutiny.
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Shashi Bhat Cried When She Got the Last Line Right
"With the title, I wanted to suggest the theme of accumulating injustices, small slices of harm that are ultimately devastating—this theme is present in…
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Kate Schapira Wanted to Write Deep and Straight and Fast Like a Tidal Channel
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