Interview: Diane Gottlieb, Curator of the Anthology Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness By Lisa Alletson in Smokelong Quarterly
In Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness, you bring together 49 brilliant, diverse voices writing short essays about inhabiting the body. There are moments of intense self-awareness, such as when Maureen Aitken asks, “What if your body is glorious now, and you are about to miss it for the ritual of beating yourself with a scale?”