Memorials
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Blank (Gallery) Space
Last week I had the great pleasure of being the writer-in-residence at Mathew Gallery in Chinatown, thanks to a sponsorship by the wonderful Montez Press. I had intended to spend my week of writing creating a new, probably lengthy, story, but that felt ambitious in my limited time frame that included planning and executing a…
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My First Residency
I’m back with an exciting announcement: this summer I have my first writing residency! It’s a bit different from a traditional residency experience in that I won’t be escaping to a cabin in the woods, but I suspect my weeklong adventure in the city will be productive nonetheless. The exciting and relatively new publisher Montez…
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On Hiatus
But I’ll be back soon! I have been lagging in the blog updates department, mostly because I’m busy working on essays/marketing ideas for my October book launch, have been swamped at work, am editing my novel MS (and asking myself daily whether it’s time to scrap it), went through a breakup, and am generally finding…
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California Waiting: An AWP 2016 Recap
I flew back from LA on Sunday and am more over less over my jet lag and more or less feeling like a human again. Whoa, convention life is crazy. This was my first time at The Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ annual conference. It differed from my experiences at Book Expo America and…
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AWP 2016 Conference Packing List
Tomorrow, I fly out to the promised land, aka California. Though I wish it were to stay, my time there will be but temporary. For the first time, I’m attending AWP’s Annual Conference, held this year in Los Angeles. I will be there both to represent my press and to attend as a writer. I’m…
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Book Report: Sphinx
Since starting working at The Feminist Press ten months ago, I’ve been reading a lot more translations. Unfortunately, of all the books published in the U.S., only three percent are translations, which means Americans are missing out on a wealth of important global literature. My press strives to publish one book per season (two books…
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All the Things I Could be Doing if I Weren’t Writing This Book
Lately, I’ve been keeping my head down and working hard on my current young adult manuscript. What was originally scheduled for an end of March first draft deadline should in theory be done by tomorrow night–I gave myself one day into March because February gets the shaft when it comes to month length. I love…
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Breaking Up With Lolita
I’ve long cited Lolita as one of my top six favorite books (for the record, the others are : the collected works of Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Alice Munro, along with One Hundred Years of Solitude and my forever nostalgia pick, The Phantom Tollbooth). Since I first picked it up in college, I have…
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Book Report: Girls to the Front
When I mentioned to my boss that I was starting work on a Riot Grrrl vampire young adult manuscript, she asked me if I had read Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus. Shamefully, I admitted I had not. I watched The Punk Singer and read The Riot…
Kait Gets Lit 