Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with Marly Youmans. Who are you? Marly Youmans. Some people know me as the author of 13 books, counting this year’s Glimmerglass and next year’s Maze of Blood. I write poetry (mostly formal, including long narratives), short stories, novels, and the occasional essay. Other people know me by my … [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…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with writer Kristin Fields. Who are you? I’m a freelance writer from Brooklyn, NY. I studied Creative Writing and Geology at Hofstra University, where I was mentored by novelists Martha McPhee and Julia Fierro. In 2007, I was awarded the Eugene Schneider Award for Short Fiction for my story, In … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues this week with novelist Stephanie Feldman. Who are you? I’m a fiction writer from the Philadelphia area. My first novel, The Angel of Losses, literary fiction with a fabulist bent, is out this week. It explores the intersections of family secrets, Jewish myths, the legacy of war and history, and … [Read more…]