Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

“The psychic burden would’ve been too great if I’d written the story as memoir.”

By Chris Cander | February 2, 2024

Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

Chris Cander on the Perpetual Relevance of Susan Glaspell's 1917 Story “A Jury of Her Peers”

By Chris Cander | July 1, 2022

When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

Chris Cander on the Story That Inspired The Weight of a Piano

By Chris Cander | January 24, 2019

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