You're going to fall in love with our February Lineup!
We'll see you THIS Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30pm.
Hello dear memoir lovers,
I usually love winter, but this year I think I’m already over the cold.
I know we are only half way through the season, but I’m ready for the sun to stay out a little longer and to stop losing hours of my life to putting on and taking off layers of clothes.
Things are always a little hectic when the semester starts up again, and I empathize with all the teachers out there just getting back into the swing of things. If you’re already feeling pulled in a million different directions, you’re definitely not alone.
I’m keeping this months intro letter short again (mostly cause my brain is so scattered) but also because I’m REALLY excited about February’s lineup and want you to read about all these incredible writers. We hope you’ll make it out this coming Tuesday to support our readers.
Also, scroll all the way to the bottom for a very special announcement!
♥️,
Krystal (and Hope)
Irvin is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His writing has been featured in Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.
Jodi M. Savage is the author of The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind. Her essays have appeared in The Offing, Oprah Daily, The Huffington Post, Catapult, Kweli Journal, the VIDA Review, and other publications. Jodi is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her essays have also been nominated for Best of the Net and listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2019. Jodi is a Goldwater Fellow and MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at New York University.
Rebecca Suzuki is author of When My Mother Is Beautiful, winner of the Loose Translation Prize. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines. When she is not writing creative nonfiction, she is translating poems or contemporary prose from Japanese to English and teaching writing and English to college students.
Hope Elizabeth Kidd
Hope Elizabeth Kidd lives in New York City with her husband, five children, and an assortment of pets. She enjoys writing about motherhood, mental health, and body image. She is working on a memoir about her childhood in Zimbabwe and recently completed her MFA in creative writing from the City College of New York. She has been published in MUTHA magazine, Halfway Down the Stairs, the Manifest Station, and a print anthology by Horns and Rattles Press. For two years, she worked as an editor on Promethean, City College’s literary journal. At any given moment, you can find her drinking a mocha or complaining about laundry. You can find her on Instagram at @hopeelizabethwrites.
Connor Renfroe
Connor Renfroe is a fiction writer and essayist from Columbia, South Carolina. He has published and developed projects with Tsehai Publishers in Los Angeles, NPR Berlin, and Coral Press in Manhattan. His work has been published in Winthrop University's Anthology, the Southern Regional Honors Council's Sanctuary, and NYU's Pub Posts. He also had a screenplay read at a film festival in Toronto, but it wasn't THAT film festival in Toronto.
Kori Crosson
Kori lives in Brooklyn, where she spends her time playing tennis, biking between neighborhoods, and shopping at the grocery chain named after fruits. She’s a memoir enthusiast and writes non-fiction essays about the people in her life.
A VERY Special Announcement:
Must Love Memoir is going bi-coastal!
We’ll be doing our thing in March at AWP Los Angeles with an INCREDIBLE line up. Details below:
