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media debate • books • movies

I miss her already, that’s the thing. I’ve been expecting to miss her for a long time.

why I write • faith • visual art

A survivor craves closeness, yet sabotages even the slightest hint of it.

advice • teaching • interviews

When I need to dig deeper, get grittier, I imagine that smoke-filled room, the overflowing ashtray, the Olivetti.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

The flash form often invites me to use what I call a communal or a collective voice.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Do the dead Chumash own Santa Barbara or do Oprah and Jeff Bridges?

from adoption to writerly sins...

The issue could have been dubbed 'all that women's stuff we rarely cover.' It’s ironic, but not in a good way.