In the second episode, I’ll talk with author Daisy Hernández and discuss her book, A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, and her relationship to language, details, and memory. Listen for her thoughts on "emotional drafts," showing versus telling, and what she knows and what she doesn't when launching into a new piece of writing. Daisy Hernandez is the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. The former editor of ColorLines , a newsmagazine on race and politics, she has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and NPR's All Things Considered. Her essays have appeared in Brevity, the Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, and The Rumpus. She is a regular contributor to the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, and her writing was nominated for a 2009 GLAAD Media Award. She is an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Miami University in Ohio. To see more of her work, visit www.daisyhernandez.com. Read her latest article for National Geographic on Chagas disease and the kissing bug here. And find her most recent essay for Tricycle on dealing with family members with opposing political views and achieving equanimity here. To purchase A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir, please visit the Beacon Press site or order from other major online retailers.