Still buzzing (and let's be real, counting down symptom-free days) from this year's AWP 2020 —where I and the intrepid Jen Hinst-White, friends from Bennington College in Vermont, author Ruben Degollado, and the marvelous Milda Devoe of Pen Parentis took San Antonio by storm, talk'n books, art, lit, writing, tacos—and, no joke, sanitizing our hands like maniacs. Little did we know how quickly life would change after we returned from this last adventure.... Now looking back at these photos, I'm cringing at how NOT 6-feet-apart we are!
I just booked the travel for this trip, so it seems like a great time to make the announcement:
I'm supremely honored to be representing Pen Parentis at this year's AWP (Association for Writers & Writing Programs) conference in San Antonio, Texas. Wow, congrats to me!
Through a fortuitous romp of six-degrees-of-separation, I (somehow?) became the winner and recipient of the Pen Parentis annual AWP registration give-away—and I couldn't be more thrilled to attend under this organization's much-respected banner.
Pen Parentis is an amazing non-profit offering support, community, opportunities, and resources to writers who are also parents (and we all know how hard that overlap can be sometimes).
As a result, I'm now a full title member of Pen Parentis with an author's page, and very much look forward to hosting their meet 'n greet reception at the conference in March. And if all goes well, who knows? Maybe this time next year Pen Parentis will have a Long Island chapter...!?!? Stay tuned!
