I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets your hands dirty, is a respectable, necessary thing. But I wanted to write - and writing didn't qualify.… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over. — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people care when… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, "It's not like I hate gay people.” — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“Who isn't interesting enough to help -- what forgotten woman sits in a lawn chair in her yard with a can of soda pressed… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“The daughter wants to turn the past on its back like a turtle or a roach, leaving those legs walking futilely through air cheering… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
