★ Welcome to Napkin Manifestos! ★
While facing whistleblower retaliation at a public research university in the South, I started stripping so I could resign from my tenured job as an English professor and pursue my dream of living as a writer. Shaped by these experiences as a recovering academic and sex worker, I write witchy creative nonfiction about power and pleasure in and beyond the crumbling structures that fail to contain them.
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I have loved writing since before I could spell the word the, which I simply replaced in each instance with a random string of letters. Now that I know, that and some other things, I am beyond grateful that I get to share my writing with you.
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