Ten Questions for Erika Howsare

“By the time I finished I actually felt that the topic had chosen me.” —Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors
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“By the time I finished I actually felt that the topic had chosen me.” —Erika Howsare, author of The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship With Our Wild Neighbors
Ten authors answer the question: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
“Writing kept me grounded, but it also reopened some wounds.” —Melissa Rivero, author of Flores and Miss Paula
“I struggled with the urge to tame my voice.” —James W. Jennings, author of Wings of Red
“I’m very much a write-when-it-comes kind of writer.” —Kimberly Grey, author of A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
“It’s okay for you to reveal more of yourself in your poetry.” —Subhaga Crystal Bacon
“Never assume the reader is not as intelligent as you are.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Vulnerables
“Write toward what you want to discover.” —Jim Redmond, author of Because You Previously Liked or Played
“Have fun. Make friends.” —Curtis Chin, author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts