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Supplied by Sadiqa de Meijer Sadiqa de Meijer is a talented writer of poetry, short stories, and essays. Her work has been published in The Walrus and  Poetry Magazine. Like many, de Meijer found herself challenged by the pandemic—both as a writer and a mother. “I’m fortunate as a writer that I was working at home anyway, but the timing of things [in life] has changed,” de Meijer told The Journal. “Things were fairly close to normal, other than all the same anxieties and missing ...

Experimental memoirs have proliferated in recent years under many guises: sometimes called lyric essays or autotheory, these works often hybridize different forms, including poetry, essay, and memoir. Truman Capote’s true crime blockbuster In Cold Blood, one of the first books to apply fiction techniques to hard reporting, is often cited as the grandfather of creative nonfiction. But, while the genre’s most exciting contemporary practitioners share Capote’s innovative spirit, the demogra...