She spent her childhood moving from America to the Caribbean and then the Netherlands and back to America with parents who were struggling missionaries.
Interview: Megan Hustad, author of More Than Conquerors: A Memoir of Lost Arguments
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
Interview: Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work
Most of my career has just been about figuring out how to unite my love of reading, writing, drawing, monkeying around on the computer, and playing music.
Interview: Sonja Livingston, Author of Ghostbread
… Sonja Livingston is a poet at heart; so it is no surprise that her tales of growing up poor as one of seven children brought up by a single mother are written in comparatively short bursts…
Interview: Sean Prentiss and Joe Wilkins, editors of The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
Several terms have been used to identify this genre: nonfiction, contemporary nonfiction, or creative nonfiction – a term that some reject.
Interview: Elizabeth Scarboro, author of My Foreign Cities: A Memoir
My husband died at the end of January. There. I said it. … Still off-balance and only weeks after his passing, I discovered an essay, online, written Elizabeth Scarboro.
Interview: Poe Ballantine, author of Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir
Author Poe Ballantine discovered the basis for his latest book … right next door when his Nebraska neighbor disappeared and his mutilated body found months later.
Interview: Filmmaker Dave Jannetta, director/producer/editor of the documentary Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere.
I knew right away I wanted try and make it into a film…
Interview: Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow, memoir writer
In my younger years, I did not write stories. Rather, I wrote feelings.
Interview: Becky Aikman, author of Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives
It’s said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, but I’d like to add one more: good friends who are there when you need them.
Interview: Natalie Goldberg, author of The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
I have a shelf-full of books about the technical aspects of writing; books on creating characters, how to plot a novel, how to market your book. But it has always been author Natalie Goldberg who has brought us down to earth and made writing real in her renowned Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer…
