Ask the Author: Alina Stefanescu
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Alina Stefanescu
I'm not sure. I haven't read Pattiann Rogers. Thanks for putting her on my radar.
Alina Stefanescu
I am missing the memory of two years prior to a basal skull fracture. I wonder who I was then.
Alina Stefanescu
Never having an answer.
Alina Stefanescu
I don't experience writer's block so much as the limitations of a 24-hour day in which all the words that needed writing got set aside for dinner, family, friendship, a sapling, the mundane marvels of life. If I get stuck in a story, I shelve it and tend new poems. Or work on the novel.
As a scab-picker and scar-lover, my body is a treasure of possible stories and stanzas. Find a scab and pick it for a pulse. Write the way a world changes a body. Seek context. Sketch a family. Breath into the blood of our fathers drying into scabs on our knees. Explore what we supplicate-- and how it stains us. There is so much to discover in the flesh of a familiar body. The ache may be your own.
As a scab-picker and scar-lover, my body is a treasure of possible stories and stanzas. Find a scab and pick it for a pulse. Write the way a world changes a body. Seek context. Sketch a family. Breath into the blood of our fathers drying into scabs on our knees. Explore what we supplicate-- and how it stains us. There is so much to discover in the flesh of a familiar body. The ache may be your own.
Alina Stefanescu
I am currently working on two fiction collections, a poetry chapbook, and a poetry collection. Yes, in tandem. Because one wheel is not enough.
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