Like anyone with a screen, I’ve been enraged and debilitated by the daily onslaught of Epstein-related horrors filling our newsfeeds. Add to it, my shame at realizing I’ve lived six decades unaware of the cabal of rich and powerful men, the same billionaires who run every major institution on which we depend, operating an international human trafficking syndicate to facilitate their crimes. Triggered, anyone? As a published author and writing teacher of trauma-centered memoir

Putting fact and fiction in the blender. Write your life as autofiction. It’s been three years since I published the essay, Can We Talk About Autofiction? And, from what I’ve witnessed during this period, both as an author bringing out her own work of autofiction ( ORCHID CHILD ) and as a teacher specializing in this hybrid genre, the world at large still doesn’t know what to make of it. This despite the recent release of several high-profile works of autofiction. Among