Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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Claire Rudy Foster
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Claire Rudy Foster is a queer, nonbinary trans writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. Foster is the author of short story collection Shine of the Ever (Interlude Press, 2019), which O: The Oprah Magazine named as one of the best LGBTQ books of the year. Their writing has gone viral and appears on NPR, in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and many other journals. Foster’s first collection was I’ve Never Done This Before.
Rumpus Exclusive: “Field Medicine”
I didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
The Queer Syllabus: “Fragments, on Love and Desire” by Sappho
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Claire Rudy Foster
It is about the essential parts of story. The bones. The steel rods and rings. The skin that goes white with tension. Tolerating that kind of discomfort takes practice, yes, but it is exhilarating.