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Today, my Dropping Keys co-conspirator is Elizabeth Ferris

Elizabeth is a writer and writing teacher living in Richmond, Virginia. In 2018, she helped found Life in 10 Minutes Press, a small, Richmond-based press celebrating stories that are brave & true, She served for two years as the press\\u2019s Executive Editor where she developed and published Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth along with co-editor Whitney Roberts Hill. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and currently teaches writers of fiction and nonfiction at the Studio School at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and at the Life in 10 Minutes writing center.

She\\u2019s edited for multiple presses and magazines and is a former contributing writer for Richmond magazine and instructor for Richmond Young Writers. She\\u2019s been a hotel maid in Northern Spain, a nanny in Darwin, Australia, and a tomato picker on a farm in South Australia.

She recently completed her first novel, about a group of girls in a home for unwed mothers in the summer of 1968, titled, for now, We Were Girls.

We talk about:
being magnanimous
why we keep things in cages
jealousy
how you know when a season is over
and
revising/re-seeing.

You can find Elizabeth at

Facebook: @elizabethferriswriter
Instagram: @eliza_be_than
Website: elizabethferris.com
Information on the Unspoken anthology: lifein10minutes.com/unspoken-anthology