“Schultz, founder and director of The Writers Studio, chronicles the challenges he faced as a poet, fiction writer, and teacher that led him to see the aesthetic and psychological value of creating a writing persona. He has long confronted a pervasive inner critic that he calls “the s*bird,” whose “sole agenda is to negate and revoke…—the author discovered that a persona allowed him to distance himself from his material, such as his erratic, self\ destructive father, and his own feelings of shame and fear of failure.” – Kirkus Reviews Philip Schultz has a new book out called Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing where he shares his battle with dark voices in his head and how he transcends it using borrowed […]
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