Becca Schuh is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her arts and literary criticism has recently been published in Bookforum, Electric Literature, 3:AM Magazine, and the Village Voice. She is working on a book about alternative education and identity, based on her time at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies. Follow her on Twitter @tamingofdeschuh.
Memoirists are not transcriptionists of their pasts, recalling conversations verbatim. They are artists, whose job is to interpret the lived history through an artistic lens.