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Crystal K. Odelle
I met Erin when we were both teaching at a community college here in Albuquerque, but I really got to know her when I took a creative nonfiction class she was teaching (It’s a long story, but suffice it to say, it was a great class and I got a published piece out of it). She’s a brilliant, vibrant writer, who challenges the people around her to look beyond their own preferred bubbles. Although poetry is a genre that I have to work a little harder to access, the first time I heard Erin read from her work, I just got it. I felt like I’d been punched in the gut, and I loved her for it. We were sad to see Erin leave New Mexico, but she’s on to exciting new teaching and writing opportunities, and we were delighted to be able to feature her through Plume.Enjoy the interview! Plume: When did you know that you were a writer?Erin Adair-Hodges: Oh—I’m not sure I know anything, much less if I’m a writer in that kind of essentially defining way. I was never exposed to so much when I was young: the violin, pastry making, glass blowing, and maybe I had some latent potential in those fields. I tend to be fairly self-deprecating in that I claim that writing is simply what I do best out of what I’ve tried. But then again, I’ve been writing creatively since I was five—stories and plays and strange little diatribes—and despite the world’s best attempts to dissuade me from writing more, I kept going back. I will say that my first “published” piece was a story I wrote in the fifth grade. Bound as a book, it was then made available to check-out in our town’s public library. The title was “Daddy’s Not Coming Home,” and I’ve never come up with a better title since. P: Where do you get your ideas?EAH: Rocks, under rocks, the absence of rocks, the dreams of rocks. Anywhere. Mostly I’m interested in understanding how my own body frames my experiences, frames the world’s conception and treatment of this body and the person in it, but I’m less interested than I used to be in autobiographical narrative. My recent work tends to invite other figures or hybrid-persona voices to explore and express these concerns: folklore, ’80s songs, rivers, birds I don’t know the names of, angry women of myth—all … Read more
