Artists as Writers
Artists as Writers (Book)
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Part of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books. This collection features thirty-two chapters where writers share their insights, offering pathways for others to follow. They delve into how they balance multiple roles, the choices they made, the challenges they faced, and the successes they achieved. 34 b&w illus.
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Part of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books, edited by Sharon Louden, Artists as Writers offers first-person narratives that explore the day-to-day lives of individuals who use writing as both a creative practice and a means of sustaining their daily lives.
This collection features thirty-two chapters where writers share their insights, offering pathways for others to follow. They delve into how they balance multiple roles, the choices they made, the challenges they faced, and the successes they achieved.
Contributors include writers from Ethiopia, Jamaica, Guatemala, Nigeria, Palestine, Poland, Sweden, and the United States , who vividly recount the circuitous journeys that brought them to where they are today. Through richly detailed stories, they reveal how writing became a central force in their lives and how it continues to sustain them emotionally, creatively, and financially.
Seph Rodney, PhD, is a former editor at Hyperallergic and now regularly contributes to the New York Times. His book The Personalization of the Museum Visit was published in 2019, and he co-curated Get in the Game at SF MoMA in 2024.
Steven G Fullwood has co-edited Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call (2014) and Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books (2007), and was the founder and editor of Vintage Entity Press, 2004–15.
Introduction
Seph Rodney and Steven G. Fullwood
Alexis De Veaux
Alicia McCalla
Angharad Coates
Ann Finkbeiner
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand
Bettina Judd
C. Travis Webb
Carla Whyte
Chiké Frankie Edozien
David Unger
Dylan Klempner
Elifete Paz
Glenn Adamson
Hakim Bishara
Hrag Vartanian
John Brady
JP Howard
Karen Taborn
Kathy Engel
Kealey Boyd
Khadija Goding
Kristine Rodriguez Kerr
Maaza Mengiste
Max S. Gordon
Odu Adamu
Ross Berger
Samiya Bashir
Samuel R. Delany
Seph Rodney
Steven G. Fullwood
Sofia Maia Ciel
Travis Montez
