"Your Life Can Be Set Up Like An Artist's Residency" — Sasha Hom tells the story of Sidework

About this episode

Sasha Hom discusses her work 'Sidework' and the concept of living life as an artist's residency.

Send us Fan Mail Sasha Hom tells the story of Sidework. Along the way she covers: Profluence Including multiple nows in your writing Making appreciation a discipline Polyphonic nature of restaurants and motherhood (especially when living in a tent!) Living life as an artist's residency Black Lawrence Press (Immigrant writing series) Learn more about Sasha here or here Buy Sidework here

People in this episode

Host: Brianna Avenia-Tapper

Guest: Sasha Hom

Topics covered

• artist's residency
• writing
• appreciation
• restaurants
• motherhood
• immigrant writing

Keywords

• Sasha Hom
• Sidework
• artist's residency
• writing
• Black Lawrence Press
• motherhood
• restaurants

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Black Lawrence Press

Books & works: Sidework

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