There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

Elizabeth McCracken Quotes