i think artists are noticers above all else. Do you notice somebody's hands? Notice the way people speak? Like, how can you amplify that to be the thing that you bring to the page? And i think the chill we feel when we read the work that moves us as seeing how we're being reminded that other people notice the same things we notice. Through space and time, through literature, through art, that's what i love, the magic,. Yes, that's the magic, feels like a good place for us to come full circle as well. To live a good life is to be to be open to to be tuned into the small noticings of the world
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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