“Leaning In to Love the Ride”: Q & A with Jai Chakrabarti

My novel has shifted to become its own creature—it’s no longer something that belongs only to me; now that it’s out there it’s finding a shape of its own. Continue reading →

The Tragic Beauty of Dance: Q & A with Gavin Larsen

I am such a private person that as I was writing, if I had allowed myself to think about other people reading my work, I would have had to stop. But now, I just have to put that anxiety aside. And trust that baring my soul on the page is no different from doing so on stage. Continue reading →

Bridging the Gaps: Q and A with Cassandra Lane

Memory is fluid and complex and difficult to judge. I love the idea of a tapestry of memories about the same event. Somewhere, in the middle of this woven quilt of memories, is the truth. Or many, many truths. Continue reading →

Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card

“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading →

Making Funny Things Into Art: Q & A with Sari Rosenblatt

by Martha Anne Toll

“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading →

Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser

by Martha Anne Toll

“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading →

On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France

by Martha Anne Toll

Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading →