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situation / story

situation / story

By: chris moore
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 [mostly feminist] author interviews; email: thesituationandthestory [at] gmail [dot] com for booking or to send a letter.

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  • LIGHTNING FLOWERS w/Katherine E. Standefer

    LIGHTNING FLOWERS w/Katherine E. Standefer
    Jun 18 2022

    Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life (Little, Brown Spark 2020), which was a Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick, and shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Lightning Flowers was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air, on the goop pocast, and in O, The Oprah Magazine and People Magazine. Standefer’s previous writing appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. She was a 2018 Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good and a 2017 Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow at the Mesa Refuge. She earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and lives on a piñon- and juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico with her chickens.

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  • DEFENESTRATE w/Renée Branum

    DEFENESTRATE w/Renée Branum
    Mar 2 2022

    Renée Branum’s stories and essays have appeared in several publications including The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Lit Hub. Her story “As the Sparks Fly Upward” was included in Best American Nonrequired Reading’s 2019 anthology. She has earned MFAs in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Nonfiction from the University of Montana. She was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts 2020 Prose Fellowship to aid in the completion of her first novel, Defenestrate, published by Bloomsbury in January 2022. She currently lives in Cincinnati where she is pursuing a PhD in Fiction Writing.


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  • A FACE FOR PICASSO w/Ariel Henley

    A FACE FOR PICASSO w/Ariel Henley
    Feb 8 2022
    I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it.

    At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.

    Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement.

    Ariel explores beauty and identity in her young-adult memoir about resilience, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again.
    About Ariel:
    Ariel Henley is a writer from Northern California with a B.A. in English and Political Science from the University of Vermont. She is passionate about writing as a form of activism, and hopes to use her story to promote mainstream inclusion for individuals with physical differences. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Narratively. A Face for Picasso is her debut novel.
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