My First Time: Lisa Romeo

My First (Disastrous) Writing Retreat
There is a key scene at the end of my book, Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss , set at an acclaimed New England artist center, a place where I’d been awarded a grant and two precious weeks’ time to work in peace, away from house, husband, and children.

A few months before I applied to the center, where many writer friends told me they accomplished so much, I had completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in a low-residency program in...