Interview: Writing about Loss
In the spring of 2007, Beth Blankenship, Director of the Women’s Center at the University of New Orleans, invited me to participate in a panel of writers to discuss writing about loss. Here is her introduction to the panel, which she called ‘Wash Us Away’: Some events like Hurricane Katrina are national news, others only [...]
A Report from Winter is a death-in-the-family story, a love story, and a meditation on the meaning of “winter”—as a season and as a metaphor for family relationships.