Blog | L. M. Poplin

Focusing Outward: Living Literary Citizenship in Community

(Originally published at https://www.bostonbookblog.com/articles/focusing-outward-living-literary-citizenship-in-community on July 16,...

A Writer's Becoming

(Originally published at https://www.blackrosewriting.com/blog/a-writers-becoming on June 15, 2019.) When I was fifteen, my father...

Slow and Steady

I grew up in a family that was too poor to travel the world. Instead, we invited the world into our home and hosted exchange students who...

The Gift of Not Choosing

Nobody warned me when I set out to become a writer that the job would require self-promotion. Not even in grad school, when I first...

Community

February 3, 2016 If I had to choose between trying to sell a novel or writing a new one, I would choose writing a new one. Hands down....

What Writers Do

March, 28, 2015 Since I’m not interesting enough to write memoir, and not scholarly enough to write non-fiction, I’ve staked my claim in...

Displaced

May 17, 2013 I have never really felt as though I belonged. At first I believed my sense of displacement was chronological, owing largely...