From “The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh is Flesh” by Pattiann Rogers, featured in The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, … and Everything Else in the World Since 1953. The Paris Review: 2004.

From Barbara Abercrombie’s Kicking in the Wall: A Year of Writing Exercises, Prompts, and Quotations to Help You Break Through Your Blocks and Reach Your Writing Goals. New World Library: 2013.

From The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV by David Corbett. Penguin Books: 2013.

From Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction by Jack Hart. University of Chicago Press: 2012.

From Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process edited by Barbara Shoup and Margaret-Love Denman. University of Georgia Press: 2009.

From The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel by Nat Gertler and Steve Lieber. Alpha: 2009.

Annie Finch on constructing Spells. Wesleyan University Press: 2013.

From Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2013.

From Robin Hemley’s A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and travel. University of George Press: 2012.

From The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language by Natalie Goldberg. Atria, 2013.