Creative Writing | Marginalia

My view as a I write

Until recently, I have remarked upon how mild this winter is compared to the Polar Vortexes we experienced last w..

& by coffee talk, I mean where are you going to write those ground breaking poems?

After working as a manager for over a year in a ..

If you’re wondering what a thesis meeting looks like, here’s a bit of the process.

1) You go to your zen place and you write. I lik..

Ice Forest

One of the perks of attending Columbia College Chicago is a little thing called J-Term. During J-Term accelerated classes a..

Garfield Park Conservatory

It is my last semester at Columbia College Chicago and I’m suddenly faced with the rearing head of the mons..

Happy New Year, MarginAliens! I hope that everyone had a fun New Year’s Eve, and I hope that we all made some good and attainable reso..

Wild Chickens of Oviedo, Florida

Just a year and a half ago I was writing about leaving Florida, and now I’m back down south to spend ..

The last day with my students

I remember watching the poetry cohort before me hit the last semester of their MFA Poetry lives, and I h..

St. Louis Arch

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. Sure, I like getting a few days off and I like getting to see family, but it..

Friendsgiving in Chicago w Nonfiction and Poetry friends!

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and while that break was wonderful, we all k..