Ill Nature in The Pinch

November 17, 2024 § Leave a comment

Top of the first page, with the title “Ill Nature” followed by the first line, “My mother is making a scene.”
The Pinch issue 44.2, with a purple and teal vulvar-shaped object on the cover and the name PINCH at upper left in teal sans-serif capitals with an outline of a clothespin for the I.

The Fall 2024 issue (44.2) of The Pinch, the journal of the University of Memphis, is out today and I am thrilled to have an essay in it that’s one of the most personal things I have ever written. “Ill Nature” is about growing up with chronically sick parents and the resentments that I carried over into adulthood.

I’m grateful to Managing Editor Mia Day and the staff at The Pinch for giving this piece that means a lot to me such a good home.


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