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Graduate Essay: “What Counts as Writing” by Chloe Smith

Chloe Smith’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Haven Speculative Fiction, Bourbon Penn, and Three-Lobed Burning Eye, among other places. Her debut novella, Virgin Land, came out from Luna Press Publishing in 2023. She is a graduate of Your Personal Odyssey 2024. When she’s not writing, she works as a middle Read more…
By Barbara Barnett-Stewart, 5 daysOctober 13, 2025 ago
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Interview: Graduate Leah Henderson

Leah Henderson is a Your Personal Odyssey graduate and the author of many critically acclaimed books for young readers, including The Magic in Changing Your Stars, The Courage of the Little Hummingbird, and Together We March. She holds an MFA in Writing and is on faculty in Spalding University’s graduate writing program. Because she has Read more…
By Barbara Barnett-Stewart, 5 days ago
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Interview: Graduate A. W. Prihandita

A. W. Prihandita (she/her) is a Nebula Award-winning and Ignyte Award-nominated author of speculative fiction. She splits her time between the U.S. West Coast, where she’s currently finishing her Ph.D., and Indonesia, where she grew up and where her home remains. She attended the Your Personal Odyssey workshop in 2023 Read more…
By Barbara Barnett-Stewart, 5 daysOctober 13, 2025 ago
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Interview: Graduate & Odyssey Online Instructor Donna Glee Williams

2011 Odyssey graduate and Odyssey Online instructor Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter of a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas Aggie large-animal veterinarian. She’s been a lot of places; now she makes her home in the mountains of western North Carolina, but the place she lived the longest Read more…

By Wendy Dye, 7 yearsSeptember 25, 2018 ago
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Interview: Graduate Michael J. DeLuca

Michael J. DeLuca is a 2005 Odyssey Writing Workshop graduate who lives in the rapidly suburbifying post-industrial woodlands north of Detroit with wife, kid, cats, perennials, worms and microbes. He is the publisher of Reckoning, a new journal of creative writing on environmental justice. His short fiction has appeared most Read more…
By Wendy Dye, 7 yearsSeptember 24, 2018 ago
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Interview: Graduate Rebecca F. Kuang

Rebecca F. Kuang studies modern Chinese history at Georgetown University and will be pursuing her graduate studies at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar. She graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2016 and the CSSF Novel Writers Workshop in 2017. Her debut novel The Poppy War is about empire, Read more…

By Wendy Dye, 7 yearsSeptember 23, 2018 ago
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