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This week, Anahi Molina leads us into a conversation about identity.

So often, writing is understood as a solitary act, done by a lonely writer at a desk. But what if we conceptualized writing—and especially nonfiction writing about identity and the self—as a communal endeavor?

In this class, writers will contextualize the stories of their identities with the communities they call home. Writers will be asked to consider what communities they’re part of, what communities they identify with, but also the “negative space” of identity (where they situate themselves outside of). The class will include a writing exercise, short reading, and discussion, and is intended for prose writers.

Anahi Molina is a writer, educator, and editor from Texas. She earned her MFA from NAU and is UT Press’s 2023-24 Publishing Fellow. She is an editorial assistant at Guernica, and the series copyeditor and indexer for Object Lessons books. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Millions, The Rumpus, the New Orleans Review, Carbon Copy, and elsewhere.