If you've ever been stuck on how to revise that narrative piece you've been working on, you might want to try reverse outlining. Using her own works-in progress as examples, Lise Funderburg shows you how this technique can produce the critical distance, useful information, and energizing insights you needed to put you back on the creative track.

Lise Funderburg teaches creative nonfiction at The University of Pennsylvania and leads writing workshops in venues ranging from the second floor of a Tokyo coffee shop to the yoga studio on her street. Lise is the author of the bestselling memoir, Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home, a contemplation of life, death, race, and barbecue. She also authored the groundbreaking oral history, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, recently released in a 20th anniversary edition. Lise’s latest book is Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, a collection of 25 original essays she commissioned and edited, published in 2019 by University of Nebraska Press. Lise's essays have appeared in Threepenny Review, Harper's, The New York Times, Chattahoochee Review, Cleaver, Broad Street, National Geographic, TIME, and Brevity, among other publications. www.lisefunderburg.com