Creative Writing | Marginalia

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..

Finals week is upon us.

Thinking back, at this time last year, I was staying up late, working feverishly on my grad school applicat..

“A what?”

“A poet.”

As if having my entire extended family think I just walk around in a beret and snapping my fingers isn’t har..

Morning!

I was never really the type of student that pulled all-nighters to desperately finish an assignment at the last minute. While..

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 touch it, and it goes bzzzzzzarre.”

This is how Kwame Dawes kicked off Creative Nonfiction Week last week at CCC, and it couldn’t ha..

Walking around Chicago, I’ve often had moments in which I thought “I wish I could go in there!” or “I wonder what it looks like inside.” ..

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..