Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s FingersA Signature Collection home! As the name implies, a treasure trove of new and exciting memories wait just inside the front door of Memory Maker! Activities abound with the artfully designed outdoor pool and poolside theater, a 34' by 13’ indoor pool, professionally-designed indoor theater with 12-foot HD screen, NFL ticket subscription, and stadium seating for twenty, steam room, sauna, and health club-quality exercise room (including an elliptical, treadmill, bike, and weights). Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE, a short story collection: More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.
Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award.
Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards.
Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University and the author of SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. Her honors include the 2021 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an and an American Book Award. She has edited three anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Dungy is the author of the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Inland Island: A Year in Nature by Josephine JohnsonĬamille T. Dungy joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about who speaks about the natural world and how, erasure in life and in art, the white gaze, reviewing the cannon of environmental literature with a critical eye, writing about motherhood, manuscript-cutting, leaning into humor and nuance in our work, and her new book Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden.
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