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Introducing Amanda Oliver
About Amanda Oliver Amanda Oliver is the author of the nonfiction book Overdue: Reckoning With the Public Library (Chicago Review Press), named a Best Book of 2022 by Esquire. Her essays have appeared in Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Times, the Rumpus, PANK, and Medium, among many others. She was the nonfiction editor of Joyland…
Writing, Serious Illness, and the Power of Witnessing
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the 2009-2013 Poet Laureate of Kansas, a long-time transformative language artist, and the author or editor of 24 books, including poetry, memoir, fiction, non-fiction, and anthologies. As a poet, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, mentor, and facilitator, she explores and celebrates how the spoken, written and sung word can help us live…
Comedy and the Deeper Truth
I’ve been thinking a lot about comedy this summer. We just launched a self-paced course called Writing Funny with the comedy writer Simon Taylor, and his presentation of comedy’s inner workings has made me reflect on my own experience of it. Comedy (I did standup, improv, and comedy writing when I was younger) has delivered…
