So, um, it’s election day. Did you notice? We’re going to talk strategies for writing through the hard times, writing as a parent (with kids at home), and writing during the apocalypse.

Kim Purcell is a young adult novelist (Trafficked and This Is Not a Love Letter), a writing teacher, a mom and an occasional elevator dancer. She lives with her family and menagerie of misbehaving animals in Brooklyn. She loves inspiring others to write and believes in the healing, life-transforming power of writing down your story.