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Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
On Writing Alive And Beating
Rebecca Wolf My debut novel, “Alive and Beating,” follows six people from diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods in Jerusalem, all of whom are awaiting organ transplants, on the day that will forever change their lives. “Alive and Beating” is modeled on two books that deeply influenced me: “Hiroshima” by John Hersey, and “The Bridge of San […]
Creating Cowboys
By Nan Reinhardt Confession? I don’t know any real cowboys. I read about them in the novels that my fellow western authors write; I’ve watched myriad TV westerns both new and old and rodeo videos galore. We had horses for fifteen years, so I’ve met lots of horsemen, some may even have thought of themselves […]
Who Were You B.C. (before children)?
By Beth Farrar An interesting part of memoir writing is going back in time and remembering who you were before life hit you. Before you became a mother or father, and suddenly your given name was not often heard in your household. “Mom, where’s my shoes?” “Dad, can you drive me to the rink?” B.C., […]
On Writing THE DEFLECTOR
Nicole Liang Having lived in four countries across three continents, my writing has been shaped by the crossroads of multiple cultures in more ways than I’ve realized. I grew up in Singapore, attended college in the United States, worked in finance in Hong Kong, and completed my MBA in the United Kingdom. Today, I write […]
The Full Catastrophe, One Year Later: Unexpected Gifts
By Casey Mulligan Walsh When I began writing personal essays fifteen years ago, one of things I valued most was forming close connections with other writers. Having lived a life filled with an unusual amount of loss and trauma, topics we still don’t discuss openly in our culture, learning that my earliest readers—primarily critique partners—were […]
Back to Color, Back to Life: Behind My Book Sacred Curiosity By Britney Winn Lee
By Britney Winn Lee If you’ve noticed fewer fireflies lately, you’re not imagining it. The beetles that create those summer flashes of light are disappearing, victims of shrinking habitat. What fascinates me isn’t just their vanishing act, but how they work: a substance in their bodies mixes with oxygen to produce light without flame, without […]
From Barnyard to Bookshelf: Writing My Life as a Dairy Vet
By Linda Rhodes Other than various essays in college, all I had experience writing were scientific papers published in peer review journals. I’m not sure why I signed up for a weeklong course in memoir writing. I knew I had some crazy stories from the late 1970’s when I was the only woman large animal […]
How Science Shapes What I Write
On a freezing night in Illinois, I received a phone call from India. A scene from a Bollywood movie flashed through my mind: a beautiful heroine, phone slipping from her hands, her life fracturing into a before and after, aptly depicted by the movie screen splitting into two. But I was not, am not, a […]
Rae Dumont Interviews Lyman, from In the Shadow of Silence, a Novel
In the Shadow of Silence, a Novel A novel that follows the pursuit of love and joy—until the descent of untreated depression ends with unbearable loss, forcing a family to deal with the shocking and immediate aftermath of suicide. Eva’s lonely childhood has given her an intuitive connection with kids and teenagers. She is a […]
The Inspiration for A Woman in Pink
Before A Woman in Pink, I wrote only in the short form. Small spaces allowed me to say what I wanted to say, and the relatively low stakes kept me comfortable. If I wrote a story or essay that no one wanted to publish, I saved it for later revision or abandoned it. Either way, […]
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