Content warning: mentions of sexual assault I first met Jeannie Vanasco in the fall of 2016, about a year before the #MeToo movement surfaced on
I often wrestle with how I form a sentence. I love certain sounds, certain units of syntax, and I tend to use them perhaps too
I followed the doctor down the yellow hall. He was explaining something but I wasn’t listening. I was thinking about the doorways we kept passing
My Mum is driving. Her skinny body sinks into the leather seats as she takes control of the vehicle. When we turn onto the half-murrum,
I am 4 years old. Learning to read, in tears because the words don’t follow the rules. My mom patiently helps me pronounce the
Why does disability matter in a craft essay? Whether we’re aware of it or not, we’ve already been told narratives about disability. Allow me to
“Write what you know.” Fiction writers have heard it a thousand times with a thousand different meanings attached. It’s a phrase that, when taken at
A few weeks before Christmas 2017, my grandfather, mi abuelito, born in a migrant farm worker camp in rural Kansas, was called home by the
“You cannot control your parentage, but you can control your legacy.” –Rick Riordan, The House of Hades The world glows a brilliant white in
