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Healthy Silence

May 10, 2012

Clint McCown, one of my graduate professors, once said, “The literary artist writes to tame an unquiet heart.” I was newly diagnosed with Celiac disease when I first heard those words. The decades leading up to my diagnosis were filled with chronic bone pain and insomnia, the latter of which I parlayed into writing. What [...]

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Crafting Yourself

May 3, 2012

If you’ve been to the Hunger Mountain homepage since Tuesday afternoon, you know what I’ve been doing with my time lately—ushering “How To Be a Writer” to the site. Inspired and framed by an interview I did with Michael Martone (my working title for the project was “Martone-arama”), the piece is a bit like a [...]

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Getting to the Next Line

April 26, 2012

I’ve noticed one consistent challenge to momentum in my vocations as teacher, parent, and writer: the tendency to overly imbue the present moment with the possibilities of the future. Chances are—if you’re a writer—you, too, have been harangued by What If, plaguing you as you work. What If says, with no remorse: You can’t handle [...]

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Professionalism

April 20, 2012

Last week I had a scheduled call with a friend who is also a writer to discuss some editorial notes and a writing calendar. Our meeting was scheduled for 10:00; I called her at 10:15. Fifteen minutes late. Why? Because I was finishing breakfast on Saturday morning with my family and I knew she’d understand, [...]

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Litmag Love

April 12, 2012

In the final installment of our “Voices from Hunger Mountain” series, we ask editors and staff: Besides Hunger Mountain, what is your favorite literary journal and why? E. Kristin Anderson, Asst Ed YA & Ch Lit. It took me a bit to think of a favorite literary magazine, because—as a Starving Artist—I’ve let most of [...]

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Drawing Spring Fever

April 6, 2012

What kind of writing life do you want? Spring is here, even in Maine, both in the landscape and in my bones and muscle and nerves. A hushed but urgent chant—push push push—brushes the edge of my hearing, infiltrates every thought. While stems crawl through soil and buds split bark, my body and mind catch [...]

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Writing Gender

March 22, 2012

Do differences grow up with us? I study Hunger Mountain submissions to find out. . My Girls, My Boys I trained to be a teacher while on the job, working at a co-ed elementary school in Manhattan’s East Village. There, I learned the basics: engaging students, managing a classroom, and deciding what kids need to [...]

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