Kristin Hugo is a creative phenom. With a forthcoming book from The MIT Press (Carcass: The Afterlives of Animal Bodies), hundreds of thousands of social media followers (RollBones on TikTok and Carcassafterlives on Instagram), recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Book Grant, alumni of the Poynter-Koch Media Fellowship,** one of three 2024 Wyoming Creative Writing Fellows,*** publishing credits that include National Geographic, PBS Newshour, Newsweek, Bay Nature Magazine… and many, many more wonderful achievements, Kristin has built an incredible creative career.
In our conversation, we discussed:
Why you should climb cringe mountain.
Bone hunting and biology.
That, “The majority of the world is not there for you to see, but it is there, and you can see it.”*
How to follow your curiosity and get shit done.
When you take and explore your own creative path, there is no teacher, no one to say no because it is for you to discover and build it.
How to find connection with your audience.
Great grant information and ideas.
Why we should be generous.
Myth busting social media with Kristin’s social media insights.
The value and meaning of good journalism.
It was a great conversation with Kristin absolutely living her advice to be generous.
We also very much want to point out Kristin’s ANBIP group for nonfiction writers on Substack. It’s an incredible resource for information on getting published, applying for awards confidently but strategically, from whom and how much money she received to writer her book, and much more.
According to the tagline: ANBIP is a practical group for people writing nonfiction non-memoir books, focusing on resources, research, craft, funding, organization, meeting goals, etc.
Kristin’s Links:
ANBIP: https://authorsofnonfiction.substack.com/about
Kristin’s website: https://kristinhugo.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carcassafterlives
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@RollBones
*Pronounced ‘pointer-coke.’ We pronounced it incorrectly in the audio.
**In the audio, we incorrectly stated Kristin’s quote.
***Kristin is one of three—for Creative Nonfiction. The other two Creative Writing Fellowships are for Poetry and Fiction. We implied that she was the only Wyoming Creative Writing Fellow.
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