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Kate Zambreno (born 1977) is an American writer and novelist. She is the author of the novel O Fallen Angel, winner of the "Undoing the Novel—First Book Contest," originally published by Chiasmus Press, as well as the novel Green Girl, published by Harper Perennial. O Fallen Angel was also reissued by Harper Perennial in 2017 with an introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch. Heroines, her "critical memoir" centered on the women of modernism, partially incubated on her blog Frances Farmer is My Sister, was published by Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents, edited by Chris Kraus. Semiotext(e) published Book of Mutter in 2017. A chapbook, Apoplexia, Toxic Shock, & Toilet Bowl: Some Notes on Why I Write was released as part of the Guillotine series in 2013.

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I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

Canon, Differently, Memoir, Reviewed, Think, Thinking

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

Thinking, Getting Older, Our Society, Although, Experience, Invisible

The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, preferring the shade of the mythologized men, who want to keep up the status quo.

Girl, Groups, Identify, Men, Perplexing, Women

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

Aspects, Creative, Doctors, Man, Men

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

Absolve, Coming, Girl, Past, Write, Writing

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

Experience, Literature, Men, Think, Thinking

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

Literature, Marriages, People, Ridiculous

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

Describe, Feelings, Language, Muted, Years

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

Biographies, Whole, Diagnose, Tend, Literary

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature. "

Considered, Female, Form, Literature, Market, Readers

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

Discipline, Partnership, Realizing, Stable, Strict, Writing

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

Mfa, Practice, Teaching, Works, Writing

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

Roots, Political, Way, Ways, Alienation

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.

Extremely, Important, Make, Slim, Though, Writing

I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.

Alienated, Childhood, Reason, Reasons, Remember, Traumatic

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

Heterosexuality Is, Inheritance, Disease, Exposing, Rhetoric

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

Boring, Orderly, Personal, Wild, Work, Writing

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.

Book, Character, Note, Thinking

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

Biographies, Excess, Greatness, Men

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

Criticism, Literary, Mainstream, Nonfiction, Time

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