Technically speaking, I am a writer, not an artist. For more than a decade, starting straight out of college, I was a freelance journalist, pitching stories to editors at magazines and newspapers. My articles and essays often combined first-hand experience with more traditional reporting. As a result, I know what it’s like to put a little bit (or a lot) of myself into a story and then send it out to the world, vulnerable to praise and criticism. That process, […]