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Micah Perks Biography

Micah Perks is an American fiction writer and memoirist. Her three books, We Are Gathered Here (St. Martin's Press 1997) , Pagan Time (Counterpoint Press 2001) , and What Becomes Us (Outpost19 Books 2016) examine the utopian impulse in U.S. history.

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Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.

Children, Girl, Mouth, Nice, Supposed

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny
sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny
sad are probably my two favorite tones.

Art, College, Two, Theory, Genre, Tones

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

Character, Characters, Fun, Laugh, Think, Thinking

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection and they stop. Either they stop writing or they have these books in their drawers. I know that for a fact.

Book, Writing, Rejection, Ground, Fact, Writers

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

Believe, Ghost, Think, Thinking, Way, Writing

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

Enough, Forward, Probably, Support, Way Forward

I'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were immigrants, and also because I grew up so isolated from mainstream life, and it was such a total shock to leave the commune and, in a way, enter America for the first time when I was eleven - so I've always felt a little like an anthropologist - like, what is this strange place I find myself in, what are the rules here?

Grandparent, Mean, Shock, Strange, Total

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

Feels, Laugh, Laughing, Like, Writing

My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension doesn't come naturally to me, and if it does feel fast-paced that makes me incredibly happy.

Falling In Love, Character, Language, Happy, Kind

Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up as a writer, that helped form my ideas of what it means to be American - and an American writer. I'm always in conversation with them.

American Writer, Carolyn, Like, Louise, Mean, Toni

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

Ghost Stories, Ideas, Love To Read, Ghost, Love, Haunted

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

Kid, Kids, Teaser, Teasers

When the kids were growing up, I think they thought the worst thing about me being a mom is that I would laugh at them. They would say something that they thought was serious and intense and I would laugh. I thought it was funny, but they don't want to be laughed at.

Funny, Growing Up, Kids, Mom, Thing

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