Creative Writing | Marginalia

Battle Station Fallen Silent

I finally did it!

Thursday night I submitted my complete thesis manuscript to my advisor(!), so I fina..

Last semester, I wrote a blog on how I workshop my classmates’ manuscripts. But, what do you do when your own piece is on the chopping blo..

A nurse, by Roy Lichtenstein

By the time you read this, I’ll probably feel right as rain or some other tired cliché that means “health..

Kathryn and Steph take Chicago!

This past weekend, my friend Kathryn visited me in Chicago. It was her first time in the city, which o..

The Spring Reading Series Poster and Lineup… Pretty good right?

“Columbia College Chicago’s Department of Creative Writing is launch..

Portrait of John Keats. You don’t have to look like this to be a poet, I promise. You also don’t need to contract TB and die in your twen..

AMC 2014

Anyone who’s been through a Chicago winter can tell you that it makes you want to do one thing in particular: stay inside. Fo..

To the Columbia College Chicago graduate student applicants awaiting acceptance letters: I do not envy you.

I remember the jitters ..

A Chicago forest preserve at sunset (Photo: David Fairbanks)

I’ve mentioned before that I left the somewhat pastoral hills of Southern..

Baby otters in space, because why not? AKA procrastination space station

I know you are all probably sick of all my thesis posts, and ..