A woman like the grandmother in “How to Sit” is not a person used to being suffered. And in trying to understand who and what I was mad about, I considered the idea of being so frustrated that physical violence, down right fighting, is the only possible release in some cases.īut, what brings a person to that level? I personally feel it’s the failure to meet your own expectations. I was mad, spitting mad, about a situation that I could not control when I wrote this. And if they were attached to her fingers, and if she were forty-seven and not sixty-seven, she would use them to scratch my face for pitying her.” How did you write into that place of anger and imminent violence? The narrative voice in “How to Sit” is so raw, furious and vulnerable, in particular where you describe how the grandmother’s “toenails are close to my leg. Below, Tyrese talks pride, beauty, and the stories we carry in our bodies, our bodies carry into the world.ġ. metro area but is a country girl at heart.Tyrese Coleman’s compact, powerful story “How to Sit,” from the March/April issue, contains three generations of women, explosive in their anger and love. A member of the Maryland State Bar, she received her J.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland in College Park. Tyrese grew up on a dirt road in Ashland, Virginia, the self-proclaimed “center of the universe.” She received her masters in writing from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including, The Offing,, Queen Mob’s Tea House, the Tahoma Literary Review, Hobart, and recognized in Wigleaf’s Top 50 (very) short fictions 2016. She also conducts interview for Electric Literature and writes reviews for Atticus Review.Ī 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, Tyrese’s passion is writing fiction. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Washingtonian Magazine, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
She also writes memoir and personal essays. Her essays have appeared in Buzzfeed, Brain, Child Magazine and is an occasional contributor for Rewire News. Tyrese often writes about issues relating to motherhood, family, and pregnancy. Her work has appeared as a notable in Best American Essays 20 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut collection of stories and essays, How to Sit, was published by Mason Jar Press in 2018 and nominated for a 2019 PEN Open Book Award. Coleman is a writer, wife, mother, and attorney.
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