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BECAUSE YOU ASKED: A BOOK OF ANSWERS ON THE ART AND CRAFT OF THE WRITING LIFE

BECAUSE YOU ASKED: A BOOK OF ANSWERS ON THE ART AND CRAFT OF THE WRITING LIFE

$24.00Price

ISBN: 978-0-9908193-5-6

Pub Date: Fall 2015

Pages: 424


Katrina Roberts, editor


Borne out of over fifteen years curating the Visiting Writers Reading Series at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, Katrina Roberts’ Because You Asked is an anthology that brings together anecdotes, approaches, aspirations, confessions, warnings, challenges, passions, foibles, secrets, prompts, craft notes, manifestos—that is, perspectives from writers, their insights and revelations shared often during “Q & A sessions” with young—or simply young-at-heart—writers and readers. A peak inside the writing life, for readers of all sorts!


    The organization of the contributions is organic, more like the flow of a conversation than sorted by category or genre. Whether the reader chooses to read cover to cover, or by random selection, plucking out bits as they speak to your curiosity, there is wisdom and humor with every turn of the page.

    —Jody Handerson, The Literary Review


    Because You Asked will be useful for graduate students looking to expand their frames of reference, for seasoned writers looking for insights into readings by other writers they may not have had opportunities to hear in person, and for writers trying to get the gears moving again after a winter, or a year, or writer’s block.

    —Sean Singer, Boston Review


    Katrina Roberts has published four books of poems, the three most recent all finalists for the Washington State Book Award: Underdog (2013); Friendly Fire (2008), chosen by Robin Becker for the Idaho Prize; The Quick (2005); and How Late Desire Looks (1997). Her work appears in anthologies such as The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Poetry, and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets. 

     

    Roberts is the Mina Schwabacher Professor in English & the Humanities at Whitman College, where she directs the Visiting Writers Reading Series. She and her husband, Jeremy Barker, own and operate Tytonidae Cellars and the Walla Walla Distilling Company in southeast Washington State, where they live on a small farm with their three young children.

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