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• September 17, 2022

  II. I Wanna Be With You Everywhere

  I am thinking tonight about Clarion. I am thinking about the words we write and the things they render tangible, and I am thinking about the crying of the gulls at night.  During our last week on campus there was a juvenile seagull that was learning to fly. I would see it flap unsurely—a little…
• March 4, 2022

  I. A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Workshop

  Here is a terrible secret: I wrote one of the two stories I submitted to Clarion in the 48 hours before the deadline, under the influence of gastrointestinal distress. My rationale was that it would provide a well-rounded picture of me as a writer if I shared one story that I’d been polishing the minutia…