A celebration of small press authors who debuted with first books at age 40 or older. Continue reading
Category Archives: Author Features
Places We Left Behind: A memoir-in-miniature by Jennifer Lang
by Alice Lowe
“The whole book started as what I call flat prose and I tinkered and experimented with a lot of it to make it dance on the page.” Continue reading
Dancing with the Muse in Old Age: A Profile of Priscilla Long
by Alice Lowe
At 79, she proudly claims and defends the word “old.” Further, there are no such things as “senior moments”; we all, at any age, forget where we left our keys or glasses now and then. Continue reading
An Intentional, Evolving Vision: the Fiction of R. M. Kinder
“I want my fiction to be entertaining. I also want it to be honest to experience, to foster what I believe in, not pander to anything base—to have an ethical and moral perspective—and to have beauty.” Continue reading
Scoring a Poem: Q & A with Emily Sun
I allowed myself to write without compartmentalizing the Chinese from the English, the Cantonese from the Mandarin, and let the sounds from other places dance and mix into the poems. Continue reading
Perils and Paradoxes of Adoption: Q&A with Megan Culhane Galbraith
“Sometimes I channel my writing in the same way I channel my art. I try not to think hard about what I’m putting into the draft of an essay, but the hard work begins when I have to kill my darlings and shave the piece down to its essential parts. This is why I love to play with various forms and genres.” Continue reading
Not a Word Wasted: Q&A with Brian Phillip Whalen
I’m driven by oh-so-close failure. To get near to your goal—whatever that is—to see it up close: it can make you want it even more, can spur you to take more risks. Art needs risk. Continue reading