The Unfinished Search: Research, Closure, and the Gaps that Remain
How much research is enough when writing memoir?
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I don’t know if I’ll ever have all my questions answered, or justice served for that matter, but I’ll keep moving forward, one piece of information at a time.
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Almost 8 inches of snow and I don’t have to shovel. It’s time to sit by the fire to read and write
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Editor and reporter, formerly Washington Post, Semafor, NBC News.
Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc.
Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙
Born + raised in L.A
Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Writer and former wildland firefighter. My memoir, HOTSHOT, debuts on August 12th. they/them
Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Critically acclaimed writer. Books include Twentynine Palms (praised by Hunter S. Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer") and Blood Brothers (starred Kirkus, Newsweek excerpt, praised by Doug Brinkley, Thomas Powers).
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writer—mostly flash. mother. owner of too many notebooks.
Flash reader at Hippocampus Literary Magazine
Author, I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Words in NYT, WaPo, Salon, +others. Pushcart nominee. Best American Essays HM. Detroiter, rocker, mom, widow.
Story collector & teller. Trail runner. Dilly's best friend. Ran the Oregon PCT to celebrate my brave mom. Wrote a (bestselling) book about it. TO THE GORGE, out now: www.emilyhalnon.com/book
Substack-ing at: https://emilyhalnon.substack.com/
Storyteller. Ceramicist. Lawyer.
Award Winning Author: A Good Country (PRH)
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Writer of creative nonfiction, memoir, and short stories.
Primary care doctor, professor of medicine, critical medical humanities, flute player, writer (bylines include NEJM, Slate, NYT, Atlantic).
www.annareisman.com
Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square 2026). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
affiliated researcher @UAntwerpen. UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
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Writer. Cat lady. Refugee from Xtwitter.
