About: Patti Horvath

Patti Horvath is the recipient of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction at the Bellevue Literary Review and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in nonfiction literature. Her work has appeared in literary journals, including Shenandoah, the Bellevue Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, The Cream City Review, and Iron Horse. She has held residencies at Hedgebrook, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and The Blue Mountain Center. Since 2001, she has served as a fiction editor at The Massachusetts Review. She teaches at Hofstra University.

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By Circumstance and Design: Gender, Writing, and Interiority

“By circumstance and design, the work of many women writers is concerned with issues of interiority.”

That’s the first sentence of a 2011 AWP conference panel on “The Great Indoors: Gender, Writing, and Re-envisioning Literary Merit.” While preparing my remarks for that panel, I began to think more deeply about the implications of that initial sentence, specifically this notion of circumstance and design. What, precisely, is the link between women writers and interiority? (more…)