The Story Behind the Story: How to Finally Get an Essay Published

Parc Montsouris, Paris, September 2017

I have a new essay published in Bella Grace Issue 19, which hits newsstands today! I can’t even begin to tell you how thrilled I am that this essay “A Day on a Bench in Paris” finally got published.

For years I have been trying to find a home for this essay.

Literally, years! Its first draft dates back to 2005. I kept submitting it to literary magazines; I kept revising it. In fact, come to think of it, this essay is one example of work I never succeeded...