The Writers Who Read series continues this week with fantasy author Karina Sumner-Smith. Who are you? I’m Karina Sumner-Smith. I’m a Canadian fantasy writer and author of the Towers Trilogy (Radiant, Defiant, and the upcoming conclusion, Towers Fall). The series is set in a far-future, post-apocalyptic city where magic is used as currency and ghosts … [Read more…]
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of the Writers Who Read interview series! Since I’m taking a break from the series for July, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the writers who’ve participated in the series thus far, as well as others who’ve read and supported it. The series has been very rewarding … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with poet Karen Skolfield. Who are you? I’m Karen Skolfield, poet. My book Frost in the Low Areas won the 2014 PEN New England Award in poetry. I’m also Karen Skolfield, mom, wife, teacher, veteran, hockey coach. Of those, it’s the “mom” label that’s been most surprising. … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer and activist Shelley Ettinger. Who are you? I’m Shelley Ettinger. I’m a longtime activist in the LGBTQ movement and in anti-racist, anti-war and union struggles. I began writing creatively about 15 years ago; since then my poetry and short fiction have been published in dozens of … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with Rita Arens. Who are you? My name is Rita Arens, and I live in Kansas City, Missouri. I’m the author of the contemporary young adult novel THE OBVIOUS GAME and I edited a parenting anthology, SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK and co-edited a food writing anthology, … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with YA author Amy Kathleen Ryan. Who are you? I am Amy Kathleen Ryan, author of the young adult Sky Chasers series, which has been published in over a dozen languages, and also the contemporary YA novels Vibes and Zen and Xander Undone. What are three beloved … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with Kelly Ann Jacobson. Who are you? My name is Kelly Ann Jacobson, and I am the author of the literary novel Cairo in White and the young adult series The Zaniyah Trilogy. Cairo in White is about a closeted Egyptian teen, Zahra, who finds herself in an arranged … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Désirée Zamorano. Who are you? Author of The Amado Women, multi-generational family drama, out this summer from Cinco Puntos Press. A Mexican-American who grew up reading everything I could get my hands on, from Maya Angelou to Bible stories to the encyclopedia set Man, Myth and Magic in the … [Read more…]