Creative Writing | Marginalia

Three weeks into the semester I have read five books, written drafts for three pieces (however short), and taught six classes. That’s ..

Over the winter break, the Center for Book and Paper Arts (CPBA) hosted a two-day papermaking workshop called Images in Pulp. The work..

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 ..

If you’ve followed my past posts, you know that last semester I took the Composition Theory and Praxis course. Basically it is a gradu..

This is the week I show up to teach and, after several minutes of weird, alien air in which my first-year writing students are squirmi..

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”..

Sure, it looks magical, enchanting even, as the snow glides through the streetlights and dances past your window. Snow isn’t all that ..

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..

Good question, right? And the consideration is nothing new. During a time when our current cultural ecosystem is characterized by dras..

Since my last post, things have calmed down considerably. The semester has ended, Christmas has come and gone, and I’ve taken some wel..