Blackbird ArchiveTracking the Muse
Since 2007 we have invited contributors featured in our annual Introductions Loop to comment on their creative process. This year, Jose M. Martinez, Caroline McCoy, Sejal Shah, Felicity Sheehy, Samyak Shertok, and Matthew Wimberley step up to the task.
Caroline McCoy’s work appears in The Bitter Southerner , Electric Literature , Garden & Gun , The Georgia Review , Literary Hub , and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Emerson College. She has received fellowships and residencies from Emerson and from Crosstown Arts in Memphis. Photo by Katherine Biancardi
Jose M. Martinez is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Emerson College and a 2019–2020 Writers’ Room Fellow at 826 Boston. This is his first publication. Photo by Jennifer Waddell Photography