A Few Kind Notes About My Work

Meg writes with a rigorous precision and emotional clarity I find genuinely intimidating, but also admire with a force I can only call love.

When powerful forces try to silence her, Conley handles their hostility with grace and power. But what I love about her is yet more fundamental: she keeps writing from inside difficult things, not above them.

Her insistence on remaining the specific person doing this specific work, even while battling breast cancer, is a staunch refusal to become anything smaller than the force she is. Meg makes me want to take up space.

When I want to close the laptop and disappear, I run a test: Would Meg do this? Would Meg be brave enough to say this out loud?

Always yes. And on chemo.