Allison Green is the author of a memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me (Ooligan) and a novel, Half-Moon Scar (St. Martin’s). Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in publications such as The Gettysburg Review, ZYZZYVA, Calyx, Willow Springs, Raven Chronicles, and Yes! Magazine. She lives and teaches writing in Seattle.
Reviews and interviews related to The Ghosts Who Travel with Me
Other links:
Blog post at Brevity, May 5, 2016
A clip from a reading with Hannah Faith Notess at WordsWest Literary Series, November 18, 2015
An analysis of my essay “Seance” by Amy Butcher, editor of Defunct, September 18, 2013
Allison, so happy you found the Cow Pasture. I look forward to reading more from you. Welcome to the fence jumpers. @sheilamgood at Cow Pasture Chronicles
Hi,
I enjoyed reading the write-up in Brevity. I was wondering whether you could explain more about how you ” . . . read one of the short chapters in Trout Fishing in America and used it as a prompt for free writing”?
Thanks,
-Todd
I would sit at my desk, read the next chapter in Trout Fishing in America, then write for an hour whatever came to mind. I didn’t worry about making any sense; I just free associated. For example, when I read Brautigan’s chapter “Trout Fishing on the Bevel,” which is about fishing in a creek near two graveyards, I wrote about visiting my grandmother’s grave in Cambridge, Idaho.