“My NYC community college students are struggling to survive, some of them literally. As a writer myself, and as a teacher of writing for almost forty years, I’m always reminded: When there is nothing left to hold onto, sometimes there are words.”
Author: Geri Lipschultz
Geri Lipschultz has an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. Her writing has appeared in publications like International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, The Toast, Helen Literary Journal, NonBinary Review, 5X5, Fredericksburg Literary Review and the New York Times. Geri was awarded a Creative Artists in Public Service grant from New York State for fiction, and her one-woman show Once Upon the Present Time was produced in NYC by Woodie King, Jr.
A Light into the Negative Space
One does not open a book by Lidia Yuknavitch carelessly. Just as one does not bend down to pick up a child carelessly, or a sculpture of a child carelessly, or the coffin of a child carelessly. There is weight, almost too much weight to bear, in a Lidia Yuknavitch book.
The Voices of Collateral Damage
What makes Abigail DeWitt’s “News of Our Loved Ones” compelling is the compression of the story, the variety of points of view and the sheer elegance of the prose that transforms her own family’s history—and world history along with it—into a powerful act of fiction.