The eleventh Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Maddalena Bearzi is the author of Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times and Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist, and she is the coauthor of Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins. Bearzi
The seventh Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Author Cat Warren and Solo, a cadaver dog, training near the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina, Friday, July 8, 2011. Cat Warren is the author of What the Dog Knows and What the Dog Knows: Young Readers
The fifth Non-Fiction about Non-Humans interview is up on Fiction Advocate! Dr. Karen Fine is a holistic veterinarian who writes about the human-animal bond, holistic veterinary medicine, pet loss, grief, and narrative medicine. She owned and operated her own house-call practice, Fine Veterinary House Calls,
I am thrilled to share I have a new essay published in Off Assignment as part of their Letter to a Stranger series. Read "To the Iditarod Man" here, and also check out my "Behind the Essay" interview for the
I'm delighted to have a micro-essay (prose poem???) in the summer 2021 issue of Thimble Literary Magazine. Thank you to the editors for giving my and Richie's dead dogs a home in Vol. 4, No. 1. You can read
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
For the full piece, see it on The Millions. Published on September 18, 2018. — I am really excited to have this essay up today on The Millions because I am absolutely obsessed with Sy Montgomery's new memoir. Her book, How to Be a Good Creature: A
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on June 20, 2018. — Meghan Flaherty is the author of Tango Lessons, a personal history of Argentine tango, that was published in June 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Flaherty received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on January 15, 2018. — Mandy Len Catron is the author of How To Fall In Love With Anyone: A Memoir in Essays. Originally from Appalachian Virginia, Catron now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her writing
Fushimi Inari-taisha, Kyoto Three, wrapped in bags, rest -- while their family hikes through ten thousand torii. ———- Sannomiya, Kobe The tiniest pups for sale! Too bad they cost three hundred-thousand yen. ———- Takeshita Dori, Harajuku, Tokyo In Harajuku everyone is so trendy, even dogs wear shades.