Author Archives: Theodora Goss

I meant to write my third blog post on teaching at Stonecoast before I left for Mythcon, but I just didn’t have time. It’s been such a busy summer . . . But here it is, the third and final … Continue reading →

This is the second in my “Teaching at Stonecoast” series, about what I did during this summer’s Stonecoast MFA Program residency. In this post, I want to talk more about the sorts of things we covered in my two workshops. … Continue reading →

I’m recovering from the Stonecoast summer residency. What, you may ask, is Stonecoast? And what is a residency? Stonecoast is the MFA program in which I teach, and the residency is a ten-day period when all the students and faculty … Continue reading →

Last summer, I spent a month in Budapest, taking a class in Hungarian. This summer, I organized my taxes. I’m not kidding, I really did organize my taxes. It’s such a relief, having all that paperwork organized into individual folders, … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on a project of mine: Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre. It’s an online anthology of poetry with fantastical elements, from as far back as poetry has been written in what is identifiably “English.” It goes all … Continue reading →

I have a tendency to see things not as they are, but as they could become. Last week, I bought a chair at my local Goodwill store. It took me a while to buy it. I saw it, hesitated. Bought … Continue reading →

I decided to write this blog post because whenever I go into the bookstore, I see books on diets, most of them filled with advice that I think is actually harmful. And whenever I go on social media, I see … Continue reading →