Kristen Arnett on the Alarming Luxury of Becoming a Full-Time Writer

I started constructing very elaborate schedules for myself. My house had never been cleaner. I was like “I’m going to weedwack!” I’ve never weedwacked anything in my life.

Kristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction. She is a queer fiction and essay writer. She was awarded Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Fiction, has been a columnist for Literary Hub, and was a Spring 2020 Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain Institute.