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Q&A with Thi Bui: Writer, Illustrator, Teacher
By Terry Hong On the cover of Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir is a perfect quote: “A book to break our heart and heal it,” blurbs fellow Vietnamese American refugee and 2016...
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Speaking Body to Body: Q&A With Lidia Yuknavitch
by Yvonne Conza Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water breathed new life into the memoir genre. It won a slew of awards and amassed a loyal following of readers who will forever champion her work....
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Reading My Mother’s Mind: On Packing Up a Personal Library
by Lisa Peet 1. Is there anything more intimate than cleaning out another person’s home—deciding which of her possessions, collected with love or without thought, is important enough to keep; and what,...
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Buoyed, Unflinching, “As Honestly As Possible”: Q&A with Leland Cheuk
by Shoba Viswanathan I was introduced to Leland Cheuk’s writing when I heard him read from his essay, “A Grandfather’s Guide to the Resistance” at Sarah Lawrence College’s Wrexham Road Reading Series....
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FIVE IN BLOOM: The Power of Immigrant Literature
by Mollie Weisenfeld Literature in any form enriches the culture of a society, and there is much to be said for bringing in a plethora of opinions shaped by lives lived differently. The United States...
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FIVE in BLOOM: Spring 2018 New Releases
by Mollie Weisenfeld A new year brings the usual slew of new releases listicles, and who are we to buck tradition? Here for your TBR pleasure are five Bloomers with books coming out in 2018. *...
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Looking for the Secret Door
by Elaine Neil Orr Even now, almost five years after my mother’s death, I often feel she has slipped back across the mysterious threshold of life and death and into my kitchen where she advises me to...
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Author Interview Initiation: You Want to Know WHAT?
by Lisa Romeo 1. I suppose it was inevitable, having written Starting With Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss (University of Nevada Press), about the experience of grieving my father, that...
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A Lonely, Glorious Art: Q & A with Meena Alexander
by Shoba Viswanathan The Emily Harvey Foundation hosted an event in November 2017 called “In Praise of Fragments Poetry, Performance and Media: Inspired by Sarra Copia Sulam.” Poet Meena Alexander,...
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Not Fearless But Brave: Q&A with Sharon Solwitz
by Evelyn Somers Sharon Solwitz’s fourth book, Abra Cadabra, is a semiautobigraphical novel in stories that won the Center for Fiction’s 2017 Center for Fiction’s 2017 Christopher Doheny Prize, which...
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From Poetry to Prose: On Discovering a New Voice
by Elizabeth Garber I sometimes wonder why I write poetry. I can’t imagine doing anything else. This is how I save my life. Maybe this is how my mind sounds? One day, I thought, I write because I want...
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Needle-threading, Anti-murk, Dream-song : Q & A with Melora Wolff
by Maddie King Melora Wolff is an author, prose poet, essayist, and professor. She teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Wolff’s work has...
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FIVE IN BLOOM: New Releases
by Mollie Weisenfeld As summer draws to a close, this FIVE IN BLOOM highlights another five Bloomers with publications forthcoming or recently released this year. So add these titles to your pile for...
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That Which Is/Does More Than One Thing: Q & A with Jennifer Tseng
by Maddie King Jennifer Tseng is a published poet and the author of four books, the most recent of which is a collection of twenty-four, fable-like short fictions. The Passion of Woo & Isolde is a...
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Dwelling in the Incandescent and the Grotesque: Q & A with Sofia Samatar
by Maddie King Sofia Samatar is a Somali-American writer, poet and professor. She published her first novel, A Stranger in Olondria with Small Beer Press in 2013, and in 2016 published its sequel, The...
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FIVE in BLOOM: Where Are They Now?
by Mollie Weisenfeld In the six years since we launched Bloom, we’ve featured close to 200 writers who were first published at age 40 or older. But just because an author has reached the pinnacle of...
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Writing over 50: A Teacher’s Own Lessons
by Peter Krass When I recently launched an online workshop for over-50 writers, I guessed that many of the same challenges I faced as an older writer — I’m now 62 — would be shared by others. My guess...
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The Personal is Political: Karyn Kloumann, Nauset Press, and Fierce
by Lisa Peet 1. In troubled times, looking for redemption through personal narrative can be a delicate business. On the one hand, everything now is more broken than ever—children are being tear-gassed...
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“I Became an Actress at Thirty-Nine,” by Jill Kargman, from On Being 40(ish)
by Jill Kargman Following is an excerpt from On Being 40(ish), a collection of essays by 15 contemporary writers that muse on the ups and downs of hitting that particular milestone, out from Simon...
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Tarot, Astrology & Storytelling: A Conversation with Chaya Babu & Swati Khurana
by Jen Lue As a writer, I’ve always been interested in working with archetypes as a way of asking questions, exploring the self, and understanding elements of character and personality. The practice of...
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