Call For Interviews: Dis/Connect is seeking a thoughtful reader to conduct an interview with author Sarah Fawn Montgomery to discuss her new craft book, Nerve: Unlearning the Ableist Writing Workshop to Develop a Disabled Writing Practice, forthcoming from Sundress Publications on March 4, 2025. Contact Raye Hendrix at raye@anomalouspress.org with interest and to receive a digital review copy of Nerve. We aim to publish this interview by mid-late March or early April.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press, 2022), Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (The Ohio State University Press, 2018) and the poetry chapbooks Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The Astronaut Checks His Watch (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She also has a craft book on unlearning the ableist workshop and developing a disabled writing practice forthcoming with Sundress Publications and a short collection of flash nonfiction forthcoming with Harbor Editions. Her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays many times, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Electric Literature, LitHub, New England Review, The Normal School, Passages North, Poetry Foundation, The Rumpus, Southeast Review, Terrain, and numerous other journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA in creative writing from California State University-Fresno and a PhD in English in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.
Check out @sfmontgomery.bsky.social 's essay, "Unlearning the Ableist Writing Workshop," and if you're inspired, reach out to interview her about her new craft book, Nerve: Unlearning the Ableist Writing Workshop to Develop a Disabled Writing Practice!
Email raye@anomalouspress.org for more info!
