![]() ![]() And I just wanted to think a lot about the way secrets impact our bodies. I didn’t know I was trying to write it at 12, but when I wrote my first novel and this collection of essays, I was really trying to write “Heavy.” I needed to write that book because there were just so many secrets my mother and I kept from each other. I’d been trying to write that book since I was 12. What initially inspired you to write “Heavy,” to tell the story of your childhood? So it meant a lot to me that the judges could see the artistry of what I was trying to do and also just the soulfulness of what I tried to do. I’m somebody who really takes memoir and autobiographical prose really seriously there’s an art to it that I think we don’t consider often, because I think we think if it’s real, you just put what’s real down on the page. I was shocked that I won it, but I’m really thankful I won it. ![]() I really like that prize, not because I won it, but I’ve judged it before, and I think it’s the only prize of its kind that looks at autobiographical prose. ![]()
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