.VChangPoet joined Elline_Lipkin to chat about her new projects, literary mothers, and how claiming ambition is still contested for women in the literary world.
I love this book’s irreverence and that in it children ask questions which might not otherwise be spoken and hear answers which might not otherwise be said.
I see growing up as wonder-killing. Kids are the best because they aren’t afraid of wonder or of subversion or of truth. I’ve learned over the years just to write and however people will react, they will react. I can’t control their reactions and I would never want to.Your YA novel-in-verseis about two teenage sisters—one who conceals her suffering from trichotillomania, and one who also cultivates a secret life.
If people are willing to release my work in the world, that’s great too. I’ll take it because all of this can be very difficult and BIPOC women can face so many challenges. I don’t question it, I just do it. You worked a long time in the business world and are now in the literary world. So much seems to have progressed, yet there are double standards, sometimes the more fraught because they are buried. What double standards, however insidious, do you see holding women back in the literary realm?I think there’s tremendous bias in the literary world. I have bias. You have bias. But unless we actually make an effort to track things, it’s hard to even see our own biases.
My email inbox is filled with attention-seeking men. But they never get criticized for it. So many double standards..
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