Top Five: Faye Snider

Writing-Related Top Five

1. I like the challenge of writing within the limits of the brief form; the process insists on focus.
2. As a former psychotherapist who listened to stories for a living, I began to write poetry as a way to explore my own truths. Poetry writing compelled me to pay attention to the choice of words and their meaning as well as how words create both a rhythmic structure and shape on the page.
3. I attended Pine Manor’s Solstice MFA Program where I learned to write memoir and narrative essays that were coherent and imbedded in story telling.
4. I like grabbing a topic, laying the words down and delving deeper and deeper into the question of what the piece is about.
5. There is nothing more satisfying than revising until you’ve mined the piece to its core and know the truth of its meaning the best you can.

— Faye Snider

 

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