“…Whether you’re a young reader searching for a way forward or an older reader reckoning with a past self who won’t leave you alone, you’re likely to find unexpected insights in Joyce Becker Lee’s emotionally complex and superbly crafted collection.” Continue reading
A few feet away, a first-gen Lincoln Town Car had taken up residence at the curb. It wore vanity Idaho plates celebrating someone named JELLI. Continue reading
“As a schoolteacher, I’m sometimes witness to teens in turmoil and to their resilience.” Continue reading
“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
by Martha Anne Toll
“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading
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
by Shoba Viswanathan
“I didn’t want to simplify the caste, class, gender, race, or religion issues. These are complex, intersecting forces of discrimination. There are a lot of gray, murky areas and nothing is simple or we’d have fixed it all centuries ago. So I didn’t want to confirm the reader’s sense of right and wrong but actually make them question their personal biases.” Continue reading
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