The More I Wrote, The More I Remembered: Q & A with Laura L. Engel

I felt compelled to start the conversation about what had happened, addressing the crippling legacy of shame and guilt from leaving our babies decades ago. Continue reading →

The Note

I sat with the note in my lap, stunned and glad to be alone in the kitchen. The laundry gave me something to do with my hands while I settled my mind. Continue reading →

“Thinking of 40 as the Starting Gate”: Q & A with Jan Beatty

I wanted to write the book that I’d been looking for my entire life and never found. 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 →

“Fiction as a device to bring empathy and understanding”: Q & A with Jerry McGill

by Shoba Viswanathan
“I never thought I had led a life worthy of memoir. I thought memoir and autobiography were reserved for great lives….” Continue reading →

Soul-searching and Self-soothing: An Excerpt from Megan Culhane Galbraith’s memoir, The Guild of the Infant Saviour

“The Dollhouse became a lens through which I could see my birth mother and myself. I could safely question my personal history and interrogate the myths of adoption, identity, feminism, and home.” Continue reading →

FIVE IN BLOOM: Summer Bloomers 2021

by Sam Florsheim – Summer 2021 is going to be filled with powerful, challenging, and transportive debuts from a wide collection of diverse writers. Here are five in particular that caught our eye. – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a fiction writer, essayist, and 2020 National Book Award-nominated poet who teaches creative writing and literature at … Continue reading →