So, the sort of Michigan guy aesthetic definitely influenced me. The guys who-at the time they were all guys who taught here-all wore baseball caps and had beards. So I did not have an extensive education beyond high school. The only creative writing study I did before 2016 was here. As an Interlochen alum, do you think your study here played a role in your entering the field at such a young age? Sarah Arnett: So you wrote your first memoir, Wasted, when you were just twenty-three, which is really, really young for such a massively successful book. Interlochen Review editors Makai Andrews, Sarah Arnett and Genevieve Harding sat down with Marya to discuss the restrictions of writing nonfiction, the way that age and distance play a role in writing, and her own personal journey as an author. On February 25, 2016, nonfiction writer and novelist Marya Hornbacher, an Interlochen Arts Academy alumna, returned to campus for a master class and reading.
The recipient of a host of awards for her journalism and books, a Pulitzer Prize and Pushcart Prize nominee, Marya frequently lectures at universities and other institutions around the country. Her second book, the acclaimed novel The Center of Winter, has been called "a stunning achievement of storytelling.” Marya's second memoir, Madness: A Bipolar Life, was published to immediate and enormous praise, hitting the New York Times Bestseller List and earning the remark in that publication, “Hornbacher is a virtuoso writer.” Her fourth and fifth books, Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps and Waiting: A Nonbeliever’s Higher Power were both published by Hazelden Publishers. Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia in 1998, when she was twenty-three, and it has since been published in sixteen languages and is taught in universities all over the world.
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