Monthly Archives: March 2018

I am a student in the Low Residency program at The Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. The Low Rez program is amazing. I have had several kind and amazing writing teachers. I’ll go more into that in a later post. My mentor this semester is Tommy Orange. His debut novel, There There,Continue reading “Listening to Stories”

Sadly, a certain amount of benign neglect makes for an interesting life. Feel stupid having bought my family this book when l went to school and left them alone for 9 days in a cabin in the woods. You know. On a mountain. With no phone. No electric. It would have felt irresponsible to say,Continue reading “Go do stuff”

above/top: Cover of 4 Kids Walk into a Bank. Directly above: quote adapted from Scorsese’s Mean Streets, ” You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it in the home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.” 4 Kids Walk into a Bank was unputdownable.Continue reading “Writers Read”