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A Love Story in Eleven Scenes
How to capture a love story spanning parenthood, divorce, grief and an enduring friendship? Here’s my take, in eleven scenes.
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Little Patuxent Review Virtual Launch
I read the beginning of “A Love Story in Eleven Scenes” as part of the Little Patuxent Review’s virtual launch of the Summer 2020 issue.
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Translations
My daughter, Gabi, had a rare syndrome. In this essay, I take the reader with me as I decipher medical articles for what they meant for Gabi and me.
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Writing about grief
Amanda Barrett and I met at the Hopkins MA in Writing program, both of us writing about grief. Here we share what writing has meant to us and what we hope it means to our readers.
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Little Patuxent Review Author Interview
Holly Bowers, then LPR’s Online Editor, interviews me on my approach to “A Love Story in Eleven Scenes” and to the craft of writing more broadly.
Raquel Gomes leads monitoring and evaluation for the Inter-American Foundation, having previously served at USAID and Oxfam. She has a Ph.D. in international development from MIT and a M.A. in creative nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
raquelgomes1@gmail.com