Lessons in Breathing Underwater (Sundress Publications, 2020) lucidly examines personal catastrophe by presenting it side by side with artifacts from natural history, art, and objects of wonder. Drawing on elements of domestic fabulism and anesthetic hallucination, H.K. Hummel maps the blurry territory of trauma. Memories of her own childhood off the coast of California help her make sense of the oceanic feelings surrounding recovery and motherhood. Hummel asks about the difficult barters we make to live open and loving lives, and a chorus of historical and mythological women respond with a collective song of survival. 
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Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology ​(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) is a complete introduction to the art and craft of extremely compressed works of imaginative literature. H. K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox introduce both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while simultaneously resisting expectations. The book covers: prose poetry, flash fiction, micro memoir, lyric essay, cross-genre/hybrid writing, and much more. The updated and expanded second edition of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's guide and Anthology will be released in 2026.  Learn more. ​

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