The year I turned twenty-nine was one of the best years of my life. In the space of six months, I successfully defended my doctoral...
Author archive for: mheath
‘(what) is a trauma response’: #MeToo, Fake News, and Transreal Ecopoetics
I. It’s late summer. Wet asphalt simmers in still heat, glazed neon by barlights. Trains screech to a halt overhead, crowds jostling...
VIDA Not So Feckless Roundtable
Sarah Fawn: How did this the idea for this anthology come about? What prompted your role and vision as an editor? Susan: I became a...
Taking Up Space
Taking Up Space is an excerpt from Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir It wasn’t difficult to be silent. My undergraduate college campus was dark when...
Report from the Field: Quadrants
Late Summer, 2016 It’s been a long, cool Portland summer and goose bumps are, at this point, a familiar friend to my southern-born body....
Report from the Field: Behind the Scenes at AWP with members of The Disabled & Deaf Uprising
This Report from the Field is a post by a collective of anonymous writers regarding the developing controversy concerning noted literary convention AWP. We are...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Sara Iacovelli!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Shrill by Lindy West. It’s made me laugh and cry in weird,...