For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on April 9, 2018. — Anya Yurchyshyn is the author of My Dead Parents: A Memoir, published by Crown in March 2018. Yurchyshyn received her MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University, and her work has
One week from tonight (actually, exactly one week from RIGHT NOW) I will be in conversation with Anya Yurchyshyn at Newtonville Books. Anya's debut memoir My Dead Parents is phenomenal, and I am excited to chat with her about her book,
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on February 14, 2018. (Happy Valentine's Day!) — Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, and Claire of
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
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on August 14, 2017. — Miranda K. Pennington is the author of A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work (Seal Press, 2017). Her work has appeared
I'm posting the March installment of Non-Fiction by Non-Men a little late - sorry! I was traveling in Japan when it was published. This seems fitting, though, as one of MariNaomi's books, Turning Japanese, is all about her experience learning Japanese and traveling
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on February 6, 2017. — Amani Al-Khatahtbeh is the founder of MuslimGirl.com, an online magazine and community for Muslim women. Her memoir, Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age, was published by Simon & Schuster
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on October 19, 2016. — Suki Kim is an investigative journalist, novelist, and the only writer ever to live undercover in North Korea. In 2011, Kim Jong Il’s final year, Kim spent six months
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Originally published on June 13, 2016. — Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of Motorcycles I’ve Loved: A Memoir(Riverhead Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In addition to her memoir, Brooks-Dalton
And so it is 2016, and time to tell you about the 4th and final quarter of my 2015 reading challenge and how the whole thing went. If you've been following me on GoodReads, you already know: I didn't make it.