Vulnerability is something that feels good to me, one would say. My father was this life, really larger than life figure witha major ber and my mother, ou now, my book opens with her mother literally shooting somebody out of our window. And vulnerability is not something either one of them taught me. They've taught me many beautiful things, that's not one of them. I started writing about grief in the early '90s when i wrote a piece for eugene lang called "My Father" It felt like maggie nelson saying that there's sometimes a boulder in front of the things that you want to write, but you have to write the boulder first.
T Kira Madden is a writer, photographer, amateur magician, and a powerful voice and editor, earning fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She is the founding Editor-in-chief of No Tokens, a journal celebrating work that is "felt in the spine, run entirely by women and non-binary individuals, dedicated to featuring the words and artwork of all voices of the past, present, and future, here to keep stories alive and to make a physical object to hold in your hands." Madden's 2019 memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, dropping you into a wildly colorful and character-filled childhood. She also teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and we explore all of this in today’s conversation.
You can find T Kira Madden at:
Website: http://www.tkiramadden.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tkiramadden/
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