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.
From The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing by Francis Flaherty. Harper Perennial, 2010.
From The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir. Ed. Jeffrey Skinner, Sarabande Books, 2012.
From Adrienne Rich’s Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.