In today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Sara Rauch interviews Ursula Villarreal-Moura.

Ursula Villarreal-Moura is the author of Math for the Self Crippling and Like Happiness. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines including Tin House, Catapult, Prairie Schooner, Midnight Breakfast, Washington Square, Story, Bennington Review, Wigleaf Top 50, and Gulf Coast.

Sara Rauch is the author of the book-length essay XO, from us at Autofocus Books. She’s also the author of the story collection, What Shines from it, from Alternating Current Press. Her book reviews and author interviews have been featured in the LA Review of Books, Newcity Lit, Lambda Literary, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

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Conversation topics include:

-- teaching college English remotely

-- bilingual teaching with AmeriCorps

-- learning to read like learning to drive

-- the switch from poetry to fiction

-- endometriosis

-- finding a community through flash

-- selling a novel that didn't sell

-- the debut novel Like Happiness

-- two timelines

-- not writing in third person

-- ambiguity

-- stories we tell ourselves

--looking away

-- healing in the right environment

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Podcast theme music provided by Mike Nagel, author of Duplex and Culdesac. Here's more of his project: Yeah Yeah Cool Cool.

The Lives of Writers is edited and produced by Michael Wheaton.