Anne Liu Kellor

Dec 18, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Anne Liu Kellor

The world is falling apart and all I care about is making friends. This of course is an exaggeration, but it’s also not too far from the truth. Because after I divorced right before the pandemic, and then went through so many weeks alone with my child, I realized: I need closer friends. I need friends who I can text each day to share my ups and downs. I need friends who check in on me often when they know I’m down, and who welcome me checking in on them too.

Mar 6, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Anne Liu Kellor

The world is falling apart and all I care about is making friends. This of course is an exaggeration, but it’s also not too far from the truth. Because after I divorced right before the pandemic, and then went through so many weeks alone with my child, I realized: I need closer friends. I need friends who I can text each day to share my ups and downs. I need friends who check in on me often when they know I’m down, and who welcome me checking in on them too.

Nov 3, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Anne Liu Kellor

I really loved this essay, Anne. I especially love the part about the slippery nature of truth in our journals, the "blind spots" we find when we look back, years later, at our younger selves' version of our lives. This is true for me as well, so much so that in my memoir, I included this Author's Note:"When I first conceived of writing this book, I consulted my old journals and was shocked to discover how often I had lied to myself.

Nov 3, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Anne Liu Kellor

Discover more from Memoir LandThree verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays. Over 23,000 subscribers The giant chest full of old journals, archives of my lonely and angsty twenties and thirties, sits beneath the window, tucked away under a low table.

May 17, 2023 | literarymama.com | Andrea Lani |Anne Liu Kellor

In this series, our editors interview past Literary Mama contributors to see what they’ve accomplished since publishing in LM and talk about their writing journeys. This week, Literary Reflections Editor and Senior Editor Andrea Lani catches up with Anne Liu Kellor. The first essay I edited when I came on board as editor of the Literary Reflections department at Literary Mama was “Open Receptivity: On Becoming a Mother-Writer” by Anne Liu Kellor.