Goodreads asked Harriet Scott Chessman:

What are you currently working on?

Harriet Scott Chessman Actually, I am in that wonderful space of listening out for new stories. I have a few projects simmering, and I hope to come to them soon. One is a sequence of poems --- really, songs --- emerging out of an opera libretto I wrote for a contemporary opera about Hugh Thompson, the helicopter pilot who intervened in the My Lai massacre. I would love to come back to this material and start developing more songs. (I think of them as songs, because they're less formal than poems, and more to be sung or spoken.) I'd also like to come back to my wrestling with short stories --- I'm pretty new to this genre, and have just written a few stories, but I admire and love the form of the short story and I'd like to discover how to develop my capacity in that area.

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