Elise Hu
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And I had sworn when I graduated from college that I was done with school.
I wasn't going to go to school anymore.
Done, done, done, done, done.
And, you know, she, knowing me very well, she said, oh, you won't get in.
She's wicked.
Like a gauntlet.
I know.
You know, just if you don't get in, then, you know, you can just stay at that job.
Fine.
So I applied and I applied.
I had short stories, which I'd written in college.
I applied to the fiction program, but I went to study with Walcott and that changed everything.
Thank you so much for having me.
How did he see your diary?
Because I showed it to him.
That's pretty brave.
Well, I mean, again, you know, I knew I was – they had tracks.
So I was admitted into the fiction track.
But I knew that this great poet whose work I read not in school but just on my own was why I was there.
So I went to his office and all I knew I couldn't show him stories.