Photo by Jonathan Wiggs for The Boston Globe. I am over the moon to have Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter featured in The Boston Globe: "In new book, local author explores loving and losing our beloved pets." Thank you
Do you like animals? OF COURSE. Do you like writing? YES, DUH. Then I have the *perfect* class for you: Of Mice and Writers: Writing About Non-Human Animals. It's happening a week from today on Friday, February 1, from 10am-5pm, at GrubStreet. Here's the
If your New Year's resolution for 2019 is to write more, don't worry, I've got you covered! This winter at GrubStreet, I am teaching four in-person classes (one ten-week course, one six-week course, one six-hour seminar, and one Young Adult
In case you missed it, I now share my home with a celebrity. Terrence the tortoise (a.k.a. @theofficialmrt) was featured in the summer 2018 issue of Wellesley Magazine, in a piece called "The Heart of a Pet" by Lisa Scanlon
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