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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,...

L. M. Poplin
Aug 30, 20199 min read


A Writer's Becoming
(Originally published at https://www.blackrosewriting.com/podcast/a-writers-becoming on June 15, 2019.) When I was fifteen, my father...

L. M. Poplin
Aug 30, 20193 min read


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...

L. M. Poplin
May 9, 20193 min read


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...

L. M. Poplin
Mar 22, 20193 min read


Community
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. Every time. And yet...

L. M. Poplin
Feb 4, 20192 min read


What Writers Do
Since I’m not interesting enough to write memoir, and not scholarly enough to write non-fiction, I’ve staked my claim in the fictional...

L. M. Poplin
Feb 3, 20192 min read


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

L. M. Poplin
Jan 31, 20192 min read
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