For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on July 13, 2021. — Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of
For the full essay, see it on xoJane. Originally published on November 18, 2014. --- Looking around the New England Reptile Expo, I decided I wasn’t one of these people. Older men examined crickets, kids clutched Tupperwares of geckos, but the crowd seemed mostly