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 poet Jenny Sadre-Orafai. Who are you? Jenny Sadre-Orafai, author of four chapbooks and the poetry collection Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53). I also write creative non-fiction (The Rumpus, The Toast, South Loop Review, Los Angeles Review) and serve as co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly. What are … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with Maiga Milbourne. Who are you? Maiga Milbourne, hawking an assortment of low-fee services! Among them, I teach yoga, design and lead international retreats, write, run a sustainable landscaping business with my husband, and establish a permaculture-influenced farm in my suburban backyard. I feel like I make … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with Laura Madeline Wiseman. Who are you? I’m an avid long-distance cyclist and train for big rides like RAGBRAI year round. I tend a vegetable garden in the summer. I have three cats and a dog. I am also the author of the collaborative book of short stories … [Read more…]
Like on the Halloween post on the scariest stories ever written, I asked the authors participating in the Writers Who Read interview series a question: What’s the most romantic story you’ve read? Here are their answers, from Austen to an experimental science fiction story to Gift of the Magi. Anna Schumacher, author of End Times The Gift … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with author Michalle Gould. Who are you? I have been writing and publishing poetry for a long time and received my MFA in 2001 but am just now publishing my first book of poetry. The oldest poems in the book date all the way back to 1999! … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with the lovely Gill Hoffs. Who are you? The one, the only, Giiiiiiiiiillllllll Ho-o-o-offfffffs! You’ll have to imagine the drumroll, cymbal clash, and ringmaster’s flourish with a whip. I was raised along the west coast of Scotland and now live in Warrington in the north-west of England … [Read more…]
The Writers Who Read series continues this week with poet Susan Rich. Who are you? I am a word addict. I’m into confetti and aquamarine; I love double-barreled words like “doorknob” and “backstabber,” “watermelon” and “windowpane” where I can grab two images for the price of one. Mostly, I answer to “poet” with a new book, CLOUD … [Read more…]
This week I’m welcoming a guest post by Daniel Hales, whose new book of poetry, Tempo Maps (ixnay press, Philadelphia), will be released this Saturday when he reads at the Philly Art Alliance as part of the Philalalia Small Press Festival. Here Daniel shares his ten favorite books of prose poetry from roughly the last fifty … [Read more…]
Our Writers Who Read series continues with writer Tanya Selvaratnam. Who are you? Tanya Selvaratnam, a writer, producer, actor, and activist based in New York City and Portland, OR. I was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA. I’m the author of The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. … [Read more…]