Emily Cordo is a second year MFA candidate at Texas State University, following a decade litigating gender-based violence cases. She is currently working on a novel that brings together her passions for painting, scuba diving, and no longer being an attorney.
Content by Emily Cordo
Interviews,
Play and the Spirit of Resistance in Writing: A Conversation with Jamel Brinkley
I like that you can hold an entire short story in your mind, more or less. There may be bits and pieces that you miss, but it’s nice to be able to hold a little narrative in your mind, in your hands.
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Empathy, Pain, and Power in Literature: A Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen
The dominant normative tendency is to say literature is unmarked by many things, including politics, and that is the power of ideology in American society, and in American literature, and in American MFA programs, as far as I can tell. And it leaves, in the United States, those marked as international or minority writers in the position of constantly harping on the political. It’s a mutually reinforcing cycle; we’re going to keep on talking about it because we’re in that contradiction.
Interviews,
“Sleep With Your Rifle”: The Power of Writing from Trauma and Myth An Interview with Kim Barnes
So when I opened that back up, all the fear and pain and terror I should have been feeling then, but didn’t, came back on me. I was catatonic. My editor called me and said, “Kim, the book’s past due, honey. Where is it?” I said, “The manuscript, the hard copy, well… it’s in my trunk, and it’s bound in twine.” I couldn’t believe it. I was carrying it around hostage. Psychology 101.