So yeah, I mean I was I was thrown headfirst into the arts and stayed there. In fact, my first public reading was at an anti-KKK rally in Austin Texas, in like 1990 three or something-in the third grade. I was certainly a little shy kid who would hide under my blankets and read with my flashlight well after my bedtime and so I’ve been writing since I can remember. And you know I remember listening to her read aloud the first book she ever wrote. So, I grew up in this kind of group writing activities and I was underfoot in museums and galleries and followed my mom around for her one-woman shows. So I grew up in rooms full of storytellers and visual artists and museums and I was a participant and writers in the schools Houston which is you know central to teaching artistic classrooms and help students generate creative writing. I was raised by an artist/arts administrator a kind of human who spent a lot of time in her youth and in mine protesting and doing social justice work.
Rachel Thompson: How did you become a writer? Did you have family members who also wrote?
Rachel Thompson: Welcome to the Lit Mag Love podcast, Maya Marshall.
