I tell my students, “Never read without a pen or pencil in your hand.” They look at me like I’m crazy, a destroyer of books, tagging illegible praise from cover to cover. The truth is, the notes I have written in my books over the past twenty years have become sort of the yarn of my…
Amye Barrese Archer has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and is the author of
No One Ever Looks Up and
A Shotgun Life. She currently adjuncts at 9,000 different schools, and is the Reviews Editor for
PANK, and the Interviews Editor for
Hippocampus Magazine.