How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?  I covered high school sports for local newspapers while I was still in high school. I planned to be a journalism major in college, but during my first quarter at college I took an introduction to literature class, and after...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?  I have a small notebook with a Beatrix Potter sketch on the cover, and my mother’s handwriting begins in the front. I was telling stories since before I could write, and she would capture them in this notebook. Halfway...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing? Like so many writers, I was an avid reader before I started writing, and writing became a natural extension of that process. I wrote (really bad) fiction at first, and then over time I realized my interests and concerns as...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?  I would say it was a convergence of things: I took a lit course from an Ursuline Sister at Rummel High School, who taught American Poetry. Poe, Hughes, Crane, Lowell, and others really inspired me. I loved that course. Rummel...