What’s been most important to your writing: education, or the real world? Why?
Certainly the real world. Although my formal education was interesting, it didn’t provide the context necessary to push beyond my own juvenilia.
Category: The Write Stuff
A weekly interview series of San Francisco Bay Area authors, first published at SF Weekly from October 4, 2012 to January 28, 2016 and then for a few more years at Litseen.com.
Karla Brundage on Feeling, Movement, and Experiencing the Cycle of Destruction and Creation
What are you unable to live without?
I want to talk about volcanoes. I can live without them, but I grew up around a live volcano and I feel that without this idea of life expanding and recreating, without experiencing the cycle of destruction and creation, I would be a different person.