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I come from a family of storytellers. My earliest memories are
of listening to the grown-ups talk at the end of a day, sitting with their Bourbon cocktails in the gallery or at the dinner table. Even going to the Piggly Wiggly grocery store could become a story, even going to the dentist or movies. It never failed that some stories would get re-told over the years but they’d still entertain me (I liked seeing how they changed in the telling). Almost as soon as I learned how to read, when the lines on a page would shift from blur to meaning, I wanted to write my own stories and so I did. I started with plays, then poems, short stories, and now I mostly like to write true stories that read like made-up ones. It’s true what Barry Lopez says, that sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
— Minter Krotzer
Minter offers a wide variety of workshops, readings and book group events. To learn more about her upcoming offerings, click here. She also offers private editing, writing and coaching consultations. To learn more, please email her.
© "Swamp Near Moore’s Landing, Leflore County, 1997” is used for the background on this website with permission of Maude Schuyler Clay, an old family friend from Mississippi. It’s from her book of photographs Delta Land (University Press of Mississippi), a stunning collection of Delta ruins, images and landscapes. This swamp is not far from Minter City, Mississippi, in the Delta where my grandparents once had a farm. Mississippi swamps are haunting especially in the winter as shown in this photograph. Please click here to go to Maude’s website.