“Being from the minority group of LGBT+ made me more inclined to diversify my characters in ways beyond sexual orientation. I can get as emotionally involved in stories involving straight characters as the next person. At the same time, I’m aware of often not being included in these stories.”
“You can’t go alone,” Diane says… Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
I craved—I still crave—transcendence, some kind of transformation to click through the plodding circuits in my brain and fire them up again, one by one, turning the lights back on. Continue reading
by Alice Stephens
“There is no writing life—there’s just your life and how writing fits into it.” Continue reading
by Y.S. Fing
“We should not assume that anything coming out of our government and military is necessarily competent and well though-out.” Continue reading
By Susan Sechrist
“It only took me about 15 minutes to puzzle together the pieces and while they didn’t fit seamlessly, they made a crazy kind of sense that felt, well, mysteriously algorithmic, like we’d tapped into some secret second nature that hides inside narrative.” Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading
