Exploring Memoir and Personal Essay: A 4-Week Zoom Intensive with Lauren Brazeal Garza, Starts Monday, June 2nd, 2025

Begins Monday, June 2nd, 2025 Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Mondays, 5:30PM CST - 7:00PM CST. Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Lauren Brazeal Garza is an essayist and author of four books, most notably her memoir-in-verse, Gutter (YesYes Books, 2018), which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. She earned her MFA in writing from Bennington College and her Ph.D. in Literature, focusing on testimonio and narratives from marginalized voices from the University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her essays have most recently appeared in Waxwing and The Rumpus. Read an Interview with Lauren on The Writing Life. Now more than ever, memoir and personal essay allows us to speak of our own experiences on our terms. Unlike autobiography or biography, which are often preoccupied with the facts of an event, or when things take place on a timeline, memoir can instead focus on