slate of Grammy nominees was announced on Tuesday (Nov

be nominated in the inaugural year of an all-genre category dedicated to songwriters is another

sort of in shock about the whole thing, just because of its historical nature,”

says she was entering a writing session in Nashville with co-writer Alyssa Vanderheym when she

getting so many text messages that just said, ‘Congratulations!’ and it took me a full

getting like 50,000 phone calls, just like I was, so our co-writer was like, ‘You guys

did, we bailed on the session and celebrated and I went home and hugged my

this nomination mean to you, personally — as it is recognizing an overall body of work

so centralized to my life experience — but it’s weird having my name in the

nominated for Grammys before, but it’s so tough within the wordage that it’