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Episode 4: Aimee Baker explains forming the braided essay and New Delta Review nonfiction editor talks craft

Slow and steady wins the race. That’s the impression I got after my interview with writer Aimee Baker who discussed her nonfiction essay “This Monstrous Heart” which ran in New Delta Review last December. Aimee admitted that she doesn’t have time to put words on

This Monstrous Narrative: Writer Aimee Baker weaves three story lines in New Delta Review essay

I’ve never read Frankenstein. And honestly, I never wanted to. But then I found “This Monstrous Heart” by Aimee Baker. By the time she finished weaving in and out of three narratives in the creative nonfiction essay, I not only wanted to read Mary Shelley’s legendary tome