356: Doodling for Writers - Interview with Rebecca Fish Ewan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Rebecca Fish Ewan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Poet and cartoonist, Rebecca's passion is mingling text with visual art, primarily in ink and watercolor, to tell stories of place and memory. Her hybrid-form work has appeared in After the Art, Brevity, Crab Fat, Survivor Zine, Hip Mama, Mutha, TNB, Punctuate & Under the Gum Tree. Her illustrations and essay, “The Deepest Place on Earth,” were published in the Literary Kitchen anthology,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Places Like Home</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. She was also a long-time DIY MFA columnist, writing about books with words and pictures, and she continues as part of our extended team as a contributor at large.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rebecca has an MFA in creative writing from ASU, where she has been a landscape design professor for 25+ years. She grew up in Berkeley, California, and lives with her family in Arizona. Her book-length work includes</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Land Between</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the Forces of Gravity</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Water Marks</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and her new book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Doodling for Writers</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which released October 2020.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Rebecca and I discuss:</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How writers can get out of their own way and reclaim their love of drawing.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why writers need to embrace searching as a part of the writing process.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight