My memoir manuscript was one of ten finalists for the 2025 AWP Award Series Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction, judged by Cheryl Strayed.
Congrats to the winner and my fellow finalists!
The Problem of Happiness is about moving from one of the world’s most beloved and big-hearted cities, New Orleans, to one of the most populous and politically repressed—with a depressed boyfriend and an unresolved grief in tow. From the Big Easy to the Big Hard.
I did that. In the mid 1990s.
The book is about how love failed me, and how I failed it, and ultimately – how our definitions of happiness limit our experience of happiness itself.