Books I Live By

Fruitflesh by Gayle Brandeis

Soul Between The Lines by Dorothy Randall Gray

Why We Write About Ourselves Edited by Meredith Maran

The Magic of Memoir Edited by Linda Joy Myers, PhD and Brooke Warner

Light The Dark/ Writers on Creativity, Inspiration and the Artistic Process Edited by Joe Fassler

Handling The Truth/ On the Writing of Memoir by Beth Kephart

Writing from the Inside Out by Dennis Palumbo

Steering the Craft A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing Hard Stories Edited by Melanie Brooks

The Art Of The Personal Essay Edited by Phillip Lopate

The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith

Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

The Gifts Of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The Power Of Vulnerability by Brené Brown

Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway

Three Steps On The Ladder Of Writing by Hélène Cixous

Story Genius by Lisa Cron

Wired For Story by Lisa Cron

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Finding What You Didn’t Lose by John Fox

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg

The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick

Art on My Mind by bell hooks

The Art Of Memoir by Mary Karr

The Writer’s Book Of Hope: Getting from Frustration To Publication by Ralph Keyes

Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

Art and Fear by Ted Orland and David Bayles

Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Techniques Of Fiction Writing by Leon Surmelian

The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland