Your Body, Your Wunderkammer

By Nina B. Lichtenstein

A week before my first writing packet was due in my first semester of the Stonecoast MFA in creative nonfiction, I had completed the assigned readings and annotations. I was used to and (almost) enjoyed the “academic” part of the monthly assignment (a PhD in French had implanted enough muscle memory in me). But I had yet to come up with the twenty pages of creative writing. I felt paralyzed. I didn’t come to the program with a specific or partially complete project ...