"Write or Die" — Annell López tells the story of I'll Give You A Reason

In this episode, Annell López tells the story of I'll Give You A Reason.

Along the way, she covers:
Full-time high school teaching while full-time MFA
Affordances of short story collections
Generating ideas by asking what if the opposite happens 
Feminist Press and the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize

Drown by Junot Diaz   
More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
 
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