"Writing is a Kitchen" essay zine

This is a digital copy of a risograph printed zine I created in September of 2024. This first-person essay explores writing, cooking, memory, and archives.

Here is an excerpt:

The food writer Samantha Seneviratne describes baking as the act of realizing your own desires... You could say the same of writing. To write this piece I imagine many pleasures. When I moved into this place I bought a large white desk with library-style pulls on the desk drawers. Now I imagine the pleasure of writing at this desk. It welcomes me in the evenings the same way my kitchen on quiet weekend mornings welcomes me to bake.

My projects take shape around the sound of a satisfying sentence. The image that I knead and prod until it comes together. The cayenne-pepper heat of a dramatic scene.