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Crystal K. Odelle
Christina Socorro Yovovich is a writer I met in the MFA program at The University of New Mexico. We took a creative nonfiction workshop together, and I was so moved by her writing and by the way she was able to talk about her life so openly. She was also one of those multi-talented writers who ended up doing a dual-genre dissertation in creative nonfiction and poetry. We are delighted to feature Christina in the month of July! We hope you enjoy getting to know her a little better through our interview with her.Plume: When did you know you were a writer? Christina Socorro Yovovich: I think I fully grabbed onto the identity of writer when I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I majored in English with a creative writing emphasis, and helped to restart the school’s undergraduate literary magazine, Canvas, and somewhere in there I started to believe I was a writer. Back then I wrote fiction. I lived in a housing co-op with 12 other people, many with creative bents, and one other undergraduate friend who was also a writer. I remember working on short stories in our respective rooms, and then running up or down the stairs to check in with our progress. I loved being a writer as an undergrad.I briefly—it seems brief now but did not seem brief then—lost the identity of writer after I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 22. In the aftermath of my psychotic episode and diagnosis I lost the ability to write. It was one of the many heartbreaking aspects of that time. At age 24 I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico with my then boyfriend, now husband, and it was here that I slowly came back to writing, but not through fiction. Instead I came back to writing through poetry, and eventually nonfiction, and these are still what I write today.P: Where do you get your ideas? CSY: At the moment I’m mostly working on memoir, so my ideas come from my own life. I often feel like I’m writing in service of a younger Christina. Back when I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder I was so hungry to read about my mental illness, but I wasn’t that satisfied with what I found. I devoured Kay Redfield Jameson but I wanted more, and I couldn’t find more. I write about my experiences with mental illness for … Read more
