Creative Writing – Fiction | Marginalia

It’s finally spring in Chicago. The students are getting a bit rowdy, the weather is slightly less cold, and people are outside. A few..

Today, I thought I’d update my readers on my thesis.

I’m 150 pages in or so, and I was a bit stuck recently. I just wasn’t feeling ..

On February 9th and 10th, I had the pleasure of telling a story in 2nd Story’s February show, “Any Minute Now: Stories of Loving and L..

Okay, Chicago, we all know it’s cold outside. I even went to Michigan recently for my first time ever and played in a foot-and-a-half ..

I write this as I have been laid up in bed for four days, sick with the flu during the the polar vortex nauseatingly called “Chiberia”..

I’m 150 pages into my novel and I am at THAT point—the one where you come up with excuses to stop writing. Well, I think in my case it..

People always ask me why I chose to move to Chicago for graduate school. Often, they complain about the weather and winters, but I jus..

I was out in Los Angeles last weekend and had to do some quick revisions on my thesis because I had a short amount of time to write bu..

I thought thesis hours were going to be a piece of cake. I was!

First, I’m working three jobs. I am teaching Professional Writing C..