- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Koren Zailckas has been married to Gabriel Johnson since June 21, 2023. They have one child. She was previously married to Eamon Hamilton.
- SpousesGabriel Johnson(June 21, 2023 - present) (1 child)Eamon Hamilton(September 1, 2008 - ?) (divorced, 3 children)
- Graduate of Syracuse University.
- Her husband is singer and songwriter of the acclaimed band Brakes.
- Graduate of Nashoba Regional High School in Bolton, Massachusetts.
- Her favorite writers include: Mary Karr, Nick Flynn, Tobias Wolff, T.C. Boyle, Jeff Eugenides, A.M. Homes, Richard Ford, Haruki Murakami, and Amy Hemple.
- Her first book, Smashed was published when she was 23 years old.
- I was 23 when I wrote 'Smashed.' And looking back, I was such an easy mark. I was so trusting, so naïve, so revoltingly eager-to-please. And any other publisher might have taken advantage of that - I might have found myself on my book cover, posing top-naked and passed out with my cheek on a toilet seat or something.
- I'd like to keep on writing, reading, paying rent, paying taxes, paying my debt to society. Likewise, I hope to keep traveling, keep pissing people off, keep doing things I'll live to regret.
- All said and done, I'm reluctant to say writing 'Smashed' was cathartic. For one, I think we assign that term to women far more often than we assign it to men. All too often, men's works are deemed "literature" and women's are dismissed as "therapy."
- For me, fiction-writing is about escapism. Whereas memoir-writing is about facing cold, harsh realities. I'll let you guess which one is more of a party... Naw, in reality, there are challenges to both. In memoir, there's the burden of truth. And in fiction, there's the burden of fantasy.
Me, I find fiction harder. There are so many possibilities in fiction. The story can go absolutely anywhere. And that overwhelms me. That strikes fear in my timid, little heart. I like being restricted to the cage of fact, the coop of reality. Without it, I feel a certain agoraphobia. - I'm not convinced I've come to term with old aches as much as I've had to numb myself to them for the sake of spreading the book's message. Ultimately, I think a memoir leaves its author with more terror than comfort, more questions than closure. More than anything, I feel a growing breach between "me" and the "me" on the page. It's an occupational hazard, I guess. I feel sort of exiled from my own experiences.
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