A School of One’s Own
Opening Essay from Charting Your Own MFA: A Creative Compass for Lifelong Learning by Rosa Alemán
Virginia Woolf once wrote that for a woman to write, she must have “money and a room of her own.” I’ve carried that line with me since first reading A Room of One’s Own twenty years ago in Puerto Rico—not just as a young writer studying in the Caribbean, but as a learner, a maker, a fluid, non-binary wo…