I was so sad to hear this morning about the death of Jason Polan. I didn’t know Jason Polan personally, but his art and Instagram presence (@jasonpolan) made my life better. His drawings are deceptively simple but full of humor
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on January 14, 2020. — Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, the 2018 Chautauqua Prize, the
For the full piece, see it on Entropy. Published on January 13, 2020. — For a long time I was a photographer in addition to being a writer. Images and words always went hand-in-hand for me, and I found that often photographs influenced how
In my first Wellesley Writes It interview of 2020, I emailed with Patrice Caldwell '15 -- literary agent, writer, founder of People of Color in Publishing, and editor of the anthology A Phoenix First Must Burn. Here's the beginning of
Happy 2020, my bookish friends! First off, let me say right away that I will NOT be doing a favorite books of the past decade post. Sorry, but also I am not sorry, because I would actually drive myself insane trying
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on December 10, 2019. — Cinelle Barnes is a memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Little A, 2018) and Malaya: Essays on Freedom (Little A, 2019), and the editor
November has been a kickass month of author events, thanks to several amazing indie bookstores. THIS is the stuff you can’t get from that giant online retailer. THIS is why we need local bookstores!!! On 11/6, I heard Carmen Maria Machado
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on November 12, 2019. — Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the
Happy publication day to Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne and her beautiful, dark, devastating book, Holding On To Nothing, which is out today from Blair! Everyone go buy a copy and read it right now and I am not just saying that
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on October 22, 2019. — Cameron Dezen Hammon’s writing has appeared in Ecotone, The Rumpus, The Literary Review, The Houston Chronicle, and elsewhere. Her essay “Infirmary Music” was named a notable in The Best American Essays