Writer Lisa Lee recounts how white classmates in her MFA program found the racism in her stories "unbelievable" and often confused her fictional work for autobiography. Microaggressions like this can add up into big mental health problems.

This is an excerpt of an essay Lisa originally published on Vida. Read the whole essay here: http://www.vidaweb.org/report-from-the-field-racial-invisibility-and-erasure-in-the-writing-workshop/