"I was always a writer. When people say, you know, have you been writing your whole life, i say, no, i was a writer when i was a kid," she says. "My first stories were about a girl named joanie bolone who was loosely based on me and actually ran away from home and joined a freak show." She adds: 'i think that's true for many story tellers, children, writers, creators, outcasts,. we have to create these realities for ourselves'
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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