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Project Sample

Small Truths in Lowercase

A weekly essay column on noticing, for a regional arts magazine.

Role
Columnist
Client
Sample Arts Magazine
Year
2023
Writing in a notebook in front of a laptop
Edits, by hand first

About the project

Fifty-two short essays over a year, each under six hundred words, each about one small thing: a mug, a bus stop, a borrowed coat.

Several of them grew into the essays in Soft Things That Hurt.

Hands writing in a notebook on a dark desk
Late-night revisions