What to Read When You Feel Fragmented and Seek Structure
Chelsea Biondolillo shares a reading list in celebration of her debut essay collection, THE SKIN BIRD.
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Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird and two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong. Her work has been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016, Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women, and How We Speak To One Another: An Essay Daily Reader, among others. She is a former Olive B. O'Connor fellow at Colgate University, and is a current Oregon Literary Arts fellow in nonfiction. She has a BFA in photography from Pacific NW College of Art and an MFA in creative writing/environmental studies from the University of Wyoming. She lives and works outside of Portland, Oregon.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter
My sister is six years younger, and as kids we never got along. In high school, I went through a phase that involved a lot of sneaking out to drink…
FUNNY WOMEN #41: W4M ISO Wealthy Patron of the Arts
A hearty bonjour and aloha to all you lovers of arts & letters, I may be old-fashioned, but I prefer not to keep a day job when the winsome muse…
The Last Book I Loved: Rat Girl
The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that genius and creativity were literal spirits, both apart from and outside the artist’s body. The artist’s role was to serve as conduit, and…