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.
“The moment you walk away from the conversation with a poem, you lose it, and it will never return.” —CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE
“In the mornings—or when I roll over from a dream—there’s only God and me talking to each other.” —Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
“I find it really hard to follow a routine in almost every part of my life.” —Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts
“Combining unsparing humor with heart is a superpower.” —Jaime Cortez, author of Gordo
“I write when an idea, story, or book commands me to.” —Louis Edwards, author of Ramadan Ramsey
“Show up no matter what so your writing knows you are there.” —Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues
“The hardest part of writing Virga was finding the courage to be vulnerable on the page.” —Shin Yu Pai, author of Virga
“I only write about the things that haunt me in some way.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies
The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth shares her approach to balancing projects in multiple genres.