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We learn from Connecticut author Julia Strayer how the misfits, eccentrics and outsiders she often writes about are, in a way, a reaction to the perso...

Pennsylvania author Josh Dale explains how creating a small press publishing house became a way to combine his love of books with his pursuit of a car...

Michener Fellow Reena Shah talks about living as a young woman in Mumbai while learning the classical dance form known as khatak. She took inspiration...

New Hampshire author Sarah Schweitzer explains how writing fiction was for her a natural extension of the work she had done as a Pulitzer-nominated jo...

Toronto-born author Ahsan Butt talks about growing up in a Punjabi community in Canada before venturing south to the U.S. He writes movingly about wha...

Danish-born, London-based author Erik Pardos Olsen writes short stories about life in East London. His on-line collection "Queer as in Weird&quot...

Texas author Marcela Fuentes won a 2022 Pushcart Prize for her short story "The Observable World," published in Ploughshares in their Summer 2021 issu...

Minnesota author A. Rafael Johnson tells us how this week's story began life as a birthday gift to a friend in his college creative writing progr...

New Jersey author Jules Chung shares a glimpse into her experience of visiting relatives as a teenager in Seoul, South Korea in her reading of her poe...

Maryland author Claire Taylor tells us about her personal journey, where she first earned a psychology degree and then became a licensed massage thera...

Virginia author Francesca Leader reveals some of the methodology behind her award-winning translation of the Japanese Iroha poem. She tells us how, wh...

Connecticut author Amie Souza Reilly shares how her childhood experiences while spending summers at her grandparents' home on Lake Champlain  ins...