Writers On Writing

I've been a copywriter for two years. I started my copywriting journey because I "liked writing". I began writing poems during ninth grade as they were a solace to my hypersensitive, almost-always-ready-to-break heart. While my poems were decently average and heavily dark, I thought, well, that must mean I am…

So you want to be a writer? So do I, hence the reason I’m here while I work on my books in the background. You have no prior experience other than knowing writing was always something you liked to do and was always a fallback for you when things got tough? Same. I spent years following the art path until it plateaued in 2018 and after finally getting a show I realized it wasn’t really what I wanted to pursue and maybe art was the hobby all along.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, I have spent the better part of two decades crafting articles and selling my abilities with the written word for a number of publications and institutions. After so much time has passed it is only natural to look back and reflect on which…

When I met Ellen Meeropol met at a Red Hen Press authors’ event at AWP in early 2018, we bonded over the climate activism in our third novels, Ellen’s KINSHIP OF CLOVER and my WEATHER WOMAN. We realized that in those books, we had written one central “magical” element into…