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Motherling said I began reading at two, and that by four I was writing short sentences. What I recall is sneaking printer paper from Poppy's home office, folding the sheets lengthwise, and then twice according to width. I remember opening the pages and cutting them along the folds. Each 8.5 x11-inch sheet became eight small pages that I stacked and trimmed into something resembling a notebook. Binding was fashioned from of Scotch tape, staples, or needled thread. By seven, my Christmas wishes were granted: a tiny-and-shiny, patent-leather diary that game with a glimmering silver lock and key.
Writing instruments and journals or notebooks appear prominently in my earliest memories. My MFA thesis manuscript was a novel called The Skin Map in which two women--a journalist and her subject--defy the animosity between them for a bigger cause.
COURT QUEENS: A History of the WNBA and the Power of Persevering Women is under contract with ABRAMS Press. (A release date is forthcoming.)
HIGH-PROFILE AMERICAN: Elegy for the Erased has remains under consideration with with a mainstream poetry public.
I am a storyteller, artist, poet, scholar, musician, and activist.
Writing instruments and journals or notebooks appear prominently in my earliest memories. My MFA thesis manuscript was a novel called The Skin Map in which two women--a journalist and her subject--defy the animosity between them for a bigger cause.
COURT QUEENS: A History of the WNBA and the Power of Persevering Women is under contract with ABRAMS Press. (A release date is forthcoming.)
HIGH-PROFILE AMERICAN: Elegy for the Erased has remains under consideration with with a mainstream poetry public.
I am a storyteller, artist, poet, scholar, musician, and activist.
Selected Links
Interviews & Media
FILM
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A SCENE FROM THE SET
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TELEVISION
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THE LEAD (CNN)
with Jake Tapper |
THE CROSS CONNECTION (MSNBC)
with Tiffany Cross |
CNN INTERNATIONAL
with Rosemary Church |
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2020 McGarr Symposium on Sports and Society |
Women in Sports Media During COVID-19 Crisis: A Virtual Town Hall |