Your Superpower = Your Memoir’s Secret Sauce For most of my life, I’ve straddled two worlds. As the daughter of Yugoslav immigrants, I spent my childhood moving back and forth between Chicago and Yugoslavia, never really sure of where I belonged. When I was in academia, I taught creative writing and business writing, which wasn’t the norm for most MFAs. Once I moved into the business world, my creative writing credentials were mostly ignored. Ditto for my business writing acumen when I moved back into the creative writing world. For a long time, the story I told myself was that I didn’t belong. I was outside of. But then I began to realize that was my superpower. When you straddle two worlds, you have a different perspective. You can see things that other people can’t. When I wrote The Secret Life of Grief, […]
Memoir’s Secret Sauce (Hint: It’s your superpower)
