S.L. Wisenberg on Finding Home in Her Work
In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But
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Today, S.L. Wisenberg discusses her Juniper Prize winning essay collection, The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, as well as inspiration, encountering herself when revisiting and revising her work, finishing, locating her fear as a prompt, and more!
From the episode:
“[As I assembled the book] I came across the idea of feeling at home, and feeling not at home, in the world. Feeling not at home in my body. Feeling like a stranger traveling.”
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S. L. Wisenberg is editor of Another Chicago Magazine and author of the fiction collection, The Sweetheart Is In, and two nonfiction books, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions and The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Holocaust Education Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council, Wisenberg works as a writing coach, editor, and creative writing instructor in Chicago. Her new book is The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, which was the recipient of the Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
