I'm grateful to a number of people to be packing my bags this week! There's the National Endowment for the Arts, which funded the two-week fellowship and stipend I've received to Vermont Studio Center to work on my novel-in-progress, THE BOOK OF GOTHEL. There's my Dean, who was kind enough to allow me to participate …
I just finished a month-long writing residency at Vermont Studio Center, where I spent each day writing in a beautiful studio with a view of the Gihon River and attended readings, slideshows, and talks almost every night. Especially fascinating was visiting poet Sherwin Bitsui's seminar on translation and the way language carries culture, and visiting novelist Matt Bell's talk on revision, which was exactly what I needed …