Nicole Cuffy, DANCES

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Zibby speaks to debut author Nicole Cuffy about Dances, a spellbinding new book about a Black ballerina who is promoted to the top tier of her ballet company and, while navigating her sudden propulsion into fame, becomes consumed with finding her missing brother. Nicole describes her love of ballet, every step of her writing process (she’s a meticulous researcher and planner), and the first novel she wrote that never made it out into the world. She also speaks openly about her eating disorder, sharing how it has evolved over time (and through her pregnancy) and manifested itself in her book about ballet–a dance that puts bodies into hyperfocus.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Nicole Cuffy is a D.C.-based writer with a BA
1:06.5	from Columbia University and an MFA from the new school. She is a lecturer at the University of Maryland and American University.
1:12.9	Her work can be found in Mason's Road, the Masters Review volume 6, curated by Roxanne Gay,
1:18.2	Chautauqua and Blue Mesa Review, and her chapbook Atlas of the Body, won the Chautauqua Janice Prize,
1:23.6	and was a finalist for the Black River Chapbook competition.
1:26.2	When she is not writing, she is reading,
1:28.7	and when she is not reading, she is probably dancing. Enjoy our conversation about her novel,
1:34.3	dances. Welcome, Nicole. Thank you so much for coming on Momsdon have time to read books to discuss
1:39.2	dances, a novel. Thank you so much for having me. This is a really, really beautiful story about body and
1:46.8	dance and family and so much else. And I would love for you to tell listeners about it and what
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