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Melanie Brooks

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Melanie Brooks is the author of the memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief, and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all (Vine Leaves Press, 2023) and Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma (Beacon Press, 2017) She teaches creative nonfiction in the M.F.A. program at Bay Path University and in the M.F.A. program at Western Connecticut State University and professional writing at Northeastern University. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast writing program and a Certificate in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She has had numerous interviews and essays on topics ranging from loss and grief to parenting and aging published in The B ...more

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Melanie Brooks When I first began to write my own memoir exploring a story of trauma that I'd carried for over thirty years, I was caught off-guard by the overwhelmi…moreWhen I first began to write my own memoir exploring a story of trauma that I'd carried for over thirty years, I was caught off-guard by the overwhelming emotional toll of re-entering those memories. I felt paralyzed, and, at times, I wondered if I would survive. I wanted to find out how other memoirists who'd written through their difficult stories had coped with these feelings. I began reading interviews and found that no one was really asking the questions I most needed answers to. How did it feel? What was it like? How did you cope? So, I decided to contact memoirists whose stories had moved me and ask them these questions. The generosity and encouragement of their words were the lifeline that I needed to keep writing my story, and I wanted to share that lifeline with other writers who might need that same kind of mooring. I also realized that the words found in the pages of Writing Hard Stories are not only for writers. They are for everyone facing difficult experiences to let them know they are not alone.(less)
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