After I wrote Pity, I assumed only women would read it and men would mock even the idea of it. I think this lazy premonition was a result of receiving feedback years prior from a male editor that told me my first chapbook was immature and superfluous, simply because it was about female friendship.
Over at Hobart, Elizabeth Ellen has a conversation with Chelsea Hodson about life, writing, and Hodson’s chapbook Pity the Animal.
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