In this fifth episode of Cabana Chats, we bring you a conversation on the importance of accountability, the ways that genres inform one another, and the awesomeness of the individual writers who support us, with the wonderful writer and person Michele Filgate!
Michele Filgate is a contributing editor at Literary Hub and the editor of the critically acclaimed anthology What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. At the time of this episode’s conversation, she is an M.F.A. student at NYU. Her work has appeared in Longreads, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Refinery29, Slice, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Salon, Interview Magazine, Buzzfeed, The Barnes & Noble Review, Poets & Writers, CNN.com, Time Out New York, People, The Daily Beast, O, The Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, Vulture, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Star Tribune, The Quarterly Conversation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. She teaches creative writing at NYU, The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, Catapult, and Stanford Continuing Studies and is the founder of the Red Ink series. In 2016, Brooklyn Magazine named her one of "The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture." She’s a former board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Find out more about Michele Filgate here: http://www.michelefilgate.com/
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Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin.
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