Graduate student Sarah Minor published “Into the Limen: Where an Old Squirrel Goes to Die” in Black Warrior Review.
Sarah Minor
Minor is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing nonfiction program in the English Department at Ohio University.
Interview about the essay with BWR here: http://bwr.ua.edu/an-interview-with-sarah-minor/
Black Warrior Review’s Connor O’Neill interviewed Minor, asking “Could you talk a little bit about the inspiration for your piece “Into the Limen” featured in BWR’s issue 41.1?”
Sarah Minor: I used to tell people that my work was made in protest of the standard US Letter page. Lately I think about this more seriously. It seems that a lot of modern writing expects to inhabit 8.5×11 or 6×9 inches like a model home, as if space did not affect or matter to text and never has. All kinds of writers let their language fall into preset rectangles to be inkjet printed on 20lb without any consideration—why?
For real though, essays for me mostly arise from the struggle to make sense of an obsession I can’t otherwise explain. In the case of this essay, the writing was fueled by the intense attachment/repulsion I still feel towards this weird family home and the spaces inside it.
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