S5 E3 Nikita Gill: A Very Specific Kind of Monster
About this episode
V. E. Schwab talks with Nikita Gill about the influence of ancestry and the power of writing from a female perspective.
Some writers write with a single voice. Others carry generations with them. This week, I’m joined by poet and bestselling author Nikita Gill for a conversation about the people, histories, and inheritances that find their way onto the page. She tells me about her Kashmiri grandfather, the first person she ever wrote a story about, and the way she feels she carries her ancestors with her in the very way she speaks. We talk about the particular power that comes from writing as a woman and from the perspective of the oppressed, and how stories rooted in the past can somehow arrive in the present at exactly the right moment. Nikita and I also discover another happy bit of creative kinship: we both must start at the end. We talk about why word counts can be a distraction, and how some days the work is less about producing more words and more about finding the right ones. Links: Follow No Write Way on Instagram Credits: Host: V.E. Schwab Producer/Editor/Mixer: Jenna Maurice
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