Gayle Brandeis, author of of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, Dictionary Poems, the novels The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage…
Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers on Fatherhood, forthcoming from Berkley Books/Penguin in spring 2014. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and written about books and culture for…
1. The lovely folks at The Villager published an excerpt from The Revolution of Every Day in their recent “V Lit” section. You can read it here. 2. The Tin House Writer’s Workshop brought many wonderful authors to town, which…
Christopher Higgs, author of: The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney (Sator Press) Assembler of: ONE (Roof Books), with Vanessa Place and Blake Butler What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will change…
Yelizaveta P. Renfro, author of a short story collection, A Catalogue of Everything in the World (Black Lawrence Press), and a collection of essays forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press in 2014. Ages of kids: 5 and 8.…
Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You (debut novel, forthcoming spring 2014, Penguin Press) Age of kids: one son, 2 ¾ years old What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that…
I think it’s having a good time. (Photo is of the wonderful Laurie Mittelmann, co-director of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space)
Sarah Gilbert, author of essays in the Water~Stone Review, Oregon Humanities, Stealing Time Magazine and the upcoming anthology from Creative Nonfiction, “True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly.” Sliding into Place: on writing and mothering I…
I went to a reading last night and did something potentially foolish: I brought the entire family with me. Two kids, ages seven and three, at a literary reading. What could possibly go wrong, yeah? The event listing read: “If…
Steve Edwards, author of: Breaking into the Backcountry, a memoir about his seven months of solitude in southern Oregon’s Rogue River canyon Age of Kid: He’ll be four this summer What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like…