1) When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer, and what has your path looked like to get here? I realized I wanted to be a writer the moment someone first told me it was something I could be. Growing up, I spent much of my youth in environments where very...
1) When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer, and what has your path looked like to get here? I realized I wanted to be a writer in elementary school and was very lucky to be encouraged by high school teachers. I was actually given a writing coach, a...
1) When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer, and what has your path looked like to get here? I started writing as a teen but received many (understandable) rejections and lost heart. I was a technical writer for museums for more than twenty years. My first...
1) When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer, and what has your path looked like to get here? I became interested in writing a memoir five years ago and then enrolled in Marni and Tracy’s IMWA course in January 2023. I found it so interesting...
1) When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer, and what has your path looked like to get here? I handwrote a newspaper when I was in second grade and planned to sell it for two cents, but instead I gave it away. I drew a picture of my teacher...
By Wendy Wong Sue William Silverman is an essayist, poet, memoirist, writer of creative non-fiction, and a teacher of creative writing. She shares some of the most personal and vulnerable life experiences in her writing. Her first book, Because I Remember Terror,...
