…assigned Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk to their senior AP English classes over the summer, and then invited me to come talk to the students there during the beginning of their school year. This is one of the coolest things ever to happen to me or one of my  books, so of course I said heck yes. Today, I got to come in and lead a set of creative writing workshops and Q&A with such lovely people as these…

…& these:

Thanks so much to Faisal Mohyuddin & Rachel Alongi for putting the visit together and to all the students for being so thoughtful, engaged, and participatory. It meant a lot to have my work discussed in a classroom setting and I’m excited, too, that at the end of the year, they’ll be bringing the discussion full circle by reading Mrs. Dalloway, a book that was a big influence on Lillian.