Craft Capsule: Vertigo
The author of The Devoted searches for the unexpected door in her fiction.
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The author of The Devoted searches for the unexpected door in her fiction.
“I find it really hard to follow a routine in almost every part of my life.” —Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts
“The hardest part of writing Virga was finding the courage to be vulnerable on the page.” —Shin Yu Pai, author of Virga
“Eventually, like a banner, the imagination unfurls itself.” —Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days
“I’ve been writing it for eighteen years. More than half my life.” —Fariha Róisín, author of Like a Bird
“The glimmer of an idea appears in my notebook long before I begin writing.” —Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters
"Writing is part of my life, and life is part of my writing.” —Khadijah Queen, author of Anodyne
“The uneven rhythms of grief don’t allow you to do or to feel life as you did before.” —Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Seeing the Body