In an op-ed for the New York Times, Spring 2020 Mary Routt Chair of Writing R.O. Kwon on her attempts to write during the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic and the grief she discovered was stymying her writing process. 鈥溾�ecause many Americans weren鈥檛 talking about grief before the pandemic, we don鈥檛 know how to name it, let alone voice it,鈥� Kwon writes. 鈥淚 hope, in this extraordinarily difficult time, to be better than I鈥檝e been at letting myself mourn. I鈥檒l start at the beginning: This is hard. I hurt. If you鈥檙e hurting, too, you鈥檙e not alone.鈥�