Unlocking Hidden Stories: How CRAFT Transforms Erasure into a Sonic Journey
Writing erasure is a sort of reclamation of power. A redaction of codified narratives, perhaps a reformation of truth, but an erasure reveals something only its creator saw hidden inside. I took a Seventeen etiquette book apart because, as a teenager, I’d cried as I copied magazine advice into a mixtape of my failures. I listened to it for a long time. And then I erased it.
Meet the Contributor
Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of three nonfiction books, Teen Queen Training, A Calendar is a Snakeskin, and Curing Season: Artifacts. Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and Art at Cedar Point, and thrice named Notable in Best American Essays. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie, Kristine makes her home outside Omaha, Nebraska. She is the director of Split/Lip Press.
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