My mother is white and my father was black. I am not alone in this. I grew up in the Bronx, New York City. Born in 1967. A relatively safe time and place for a brown girl of ambiguous ethnicity. As the mother of two little brown girls, I like to believe that race doesn't matter much. But the election of Barack Obama woke me up. Ignorance is everywhere. Race labels ring in my ears. They stick and they stain. Even when they fade. This is my rant, from “post-racial America”. Hoping to shed some light.

Friday, February 8, 2019

MFA Put The Breaks On

This blog is a time capsule. It contains over seventy short essays, nearly all of which I wrote before enrolling in the MFA Writing Program at Columbia University. Yup, I did it. I spent my life's savings, and energy I never guessed I had, and I graduated in May, 2018.

One surprising lesson learned: nearly all of my brilliant and generous instructors advised me to STOP BLOGGING, because a blog post is considered "previous publication" by most editors.

So I put the breaks on and I'm done posting here. I'm keeping plenty busy pitching essays and developing two manuscripts: one memoir, one novella.

You can follow me on Twitter @browngirlcu for updates, brain farts, and pictures of my astoundingly good-looking dogs. And please, feel free to peruse the relics posted below. Be in touch. I'd be happy to hear from you unless you're nasty.
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1 comment:

Writer of Fact, Fiction, and Folklore said...

Good to hear from you! Congratulations on getting through Columbia.

February 9, 2019 at 5:28 AM

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