Inspiration – Kirsten Tranter

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Fire, Flood, Plague: Essays

May 8, 2022

My essay ‘Black Flowers’ about the 1980s nuclear noir tv Edge of Darkness and finding a form of hope in climate catastrophe, published in Fire, Flood, Plague: Australian writers respond

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Teaching in the post-pandemic world: postcard from San Francisco

May 8, 2022

I wrote about my experience teaching high school English in San Francisco in the weird world of masks and remote learning:

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Kim Gordon interview

August 16, 2019

Be still my beating heart: I met the objectively coolest person on the planet, Kim Gordon, and kept it together enough to do this interview for Spectrum:

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Steinemite!

November 1, 2015

I had the extraordinary and delightful privilege of talking with living legend Gloria Steinem for The Good Weekend Magazine: story here.

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I talked to Cheryl Strayed, aka Dear Sugar, for The Good Weekend magazine.

January 16, 2015

I’ve been a fan of Dear Sugar at The Rumpus for years. Recently I got to meet Cheryl Strayed and amazingly managed not to bug her for advice about my

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Month of Letters

January 25, 2012

Author Mary Robinette Kowal has named February the “Month of Letters.” The challenge is to send something by email every mail-day in February. To read more about it, click here.

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January 27, 2010