I Wrote a Novel During One of the Worst Moments in Global History, and We’re Still In It

When I began writing the first pages of my novel Panpocalypse, (OUT NOW IN PRINT AND AUDIO! ANYWHERE THAT BOOKS CAN BE SOLD AND/OR BOUGHT!) it was April of 2020 in lower Manhattan, during the first COVID lockdown. I was living in a faculty apartment in an NYU dorm with my daughter. There was one other staff person in our building, which…