The Community of Writers affirmed all three parts of what I consider my own writing life: the writing life itself, the research, and the reading. My proudest moment to date took place there, where my new friend approached me, teary-eyed, and said she now understood her own daughter’s mind more closely, after having read my work. The Community of Writers has given me the confidence and stamina to write nonfiction—and to own it, as a genre.
