Alex Trnka

The mingling of arts and sciences is familiar territory for Madhur Anand. In her memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction in 2020, the poet and professor drew on her knowledge of environmental science to anchor her memories of growing up in Canada as a daughter of Indian…

In Constructing a Nervous System, Margo Jefferson writes that “memoir is your present negotiating with versions of your past for a future you’re willing to show up in.” The filmmaker and author Chase Joynt opens a chapter of his memoir, Vantage Points, with those words. They help capture his own process of grappling with his…