June 2025 – Andy writes!

Friday Five: poet and writer Chrissy Stegman

‘There’s something about the way stories were told around me growing up that shaped my voice’

Today’s featured Friday Five writer is Chrissy Stegman, a poet and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. Her work appears in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Jake, UCity Review, Okay Donkey, Gone Lawn, Gargoyle Magazine, Stone Circle Review, Fictive Dream, Inkfish, 5 Minutes Mag, and BULL. She is the author of the chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You (Alien Buddha Press), a two-time Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, and 2025 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellow.

The call of the weird

For writers and other artists, weirdness is a virtue

Do you ever write something and think, This will never fly? That it’s just too weird to share?

Same here. My notebooks, laptop, Notes app, and Google docs are stuffed with ideas that may or may not become stories.