Like any other person who’s gotten a tattoo before, I will tell you how easy it is to become addicted. As I sat there watching him swipe...

In a recent Nonfiction Workshop, several of us MFA-ers were contemplating whether true art -- or writing, specifically -- needs to be...

As a writer in ODU’s fiction program, I’m branded like a poet a lot. I’ve been told, even, that I should drop the fiction. They say I...