Lu Chekowsky is an Emmy-winning writer and creative director who built a successful career in media through gut, intuition, and addiction to approval. She has attended The Tin House Summer Workshop and been a writer in residence at MASS MoCA, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Monson Arts, and the Gullkistan Creative Program in Iceland. Lu was the winner of the 2020 Pigeon Pages Essay Contest, a finalist for Best of the Net 2022, and is currently working on a memoir about fatness and grief. Her work can be seen in Hobart, Bending Genres, Kithe, The Maine Review, and at luchekowsky.com.
Only now can I finally see how this had been our pact all along. We’d decided between us, somewhere along the way, and without any real discussion, that my mother would be the flower and I would be the wax…
