For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on July 17, 2019. — Malaka Gharib is a writer and artist and the author of the graphic memoir I Was Their American Dream. She is also a journalist at NPR in Washington, and reports about
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on June 28, 2019. — Audrey Murray is a redhead from Boston who moved to China and became a standup comedian. The co-founder of Kung Fu Komedy, Audrey was named the funniest person in
Shout out and major THANK YOU to Erin Greene who made this interview possible thanks to her CITYterm connections! For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on May 14, 2019. — Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in
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For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on April 16, 2019. — Grace Talusan is author of the memoir The Body Papers, winner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction. She was born in the Philippines and came to
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on March 26, 2019. — Maya Rao is a journalist and the author of Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier (PublicAffairs, April 2018). In addition, she is a staff writer at the Minneapolis
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For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on December 10, 2018. — Tyrese Coleman is a writer, wife, mother, and lawyer. She is the author of How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays, published by Mason Jar Press in fall 2018. Coleman
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