Chaos, Creativity, Completion

“Chaos, Creativity, Completion hands the mic to fifteen ADHD writers who don’t color inside the lines, and don’t need to. These essays are often sharp, strange, and gloriously anti-rule. They’ll show you that your messy process isn’t a flaw; it’s a feature. The message is simple but radical: When ADHD writers work with their brains instead of against them, the result isn’t just different—it’s better.” * Tracy Otsuka, podcast host and author of “ADHD for Smart Ass Women” *“Sometimes it takes a while to become who you already are. And for those of us who are dynamic, kinetic, and variously ‘too alive,’ writing and community are often the pathways that lead us there. Here. Every essay in this book illuminates a different path to wholeness, not alone but always interconnected with others. I feel so grateful that this book exists and that it will doubtlessly accompany waves of neurodivergent writers out there joyfully becoming who they already are.” * Chris Martin, author of “May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodiverse Future” *

Chloe Martinez is a poet, a translator, and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the poetry collections Ten Thousand Selves and Corner Shrine and translator of Blue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai. She works at Claremont McKenna College, where she is Associate Director for Programming at the Center for Writing and Public Discourse.

Lisa Van Orman Hadley is the author of Irreversible Things, an autobiographical novel-in-stories. Her stories have most recently appeared in New England Review, The Collagist, and Epoch and have been shortlisted in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. She lives in Salt Lake City and works as a freelance editor.

Rebecca Makkai is the author of five books of fiction and a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow. Her novel The Great Believers, one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among other honors.