The Old Fetal Narrative
Maybe it has something to do with the watery world that a fetus inhabits—our words taking on the summersaulting quality of an internal water ballet.
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Micah Perks
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Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, and a memoir, Pagan Time</em, a long personal essay "Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me," and her most recent novel, What Becomes Us. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. More details and work at micahperks.com.
Back to the Beginning: Why I Write
In the beginning the words flowed like honey, like maple syrup, like corn syrup; yes, the metaphors flowed just like that.
Saturday Rumpus Essay: All Tied Up: Homeland and The Female Fabulists
I was immediately captivated. Obsessed. It was the first time I'd seen a layered exploration of an American woman's psychological response to the war on terror.
Saturday Rumpus Interview With Ben Strader
I wondered what that must be like, spending not a month at a writer's colony, but your whole life.