Ep. 061: Olivia Dunn on What it Means to Do Two More Drafts

Olivia Dunn is a Visiting Assistant Professor of writing at Skidmore College and a creative writing instructor at the Arts Center of the Capital Region. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She’s happy to be back in the Capital Region, where she grew up. Her essays have appeared recently in The Pinch Journal and McSweeney’s.
Craft Tip: When I can’t figure out what I’m doing, I go back to the big notebooks.

Book Recommendations from Olivia:
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle

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