Creative Writing | Marginalia

I’m trying to finish this thesis. And by finish, I mean finish a draft of the novel to revise and then revise again, and maybe again a..

If you remember my last post, I described my journey to making a decision to apply to grad school. Today I’ll reveal part two of the s..

Almost every Wednesday night after class, two classmates—Abigail Zimmer and Tyler Cain Lacy—and I go to Boiler Room to celebrate the h..

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..

This past week I had the pleasure of meeting some of the newly admitted students in the next cohort of Nonfiction MFA students at Colu..

Tuesday night I watched True Detective for research. Yesterday I submitted the final draft of my thesis. Today I slept in. If I could ..

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 ..

As I mentioned in my prior post, I’ve been starting to think about larger, more long-term projects (dare I even say the word, thesis?)..

Whoever said you can only yolo once was wrong.

Last Tuesday morning I missed my flight to Seattle. The United Airlines attendant to..

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..