by Paul Seward
It is not simply that its construction and mechanism permit this single small pump to push our entire blood supply through our lungs, then through our body and back again. It is also that, beginning well before we are born, it does that exercise approximately once every second for our entire life. Continue reading
by Athena Kildegaard
“I really want justice for my characters, many of whom are children, and I want their travails in their world to be acknowledged.” Continue reading
by Elizabeth Garber
After I had constructed my memoir, one of my mentors reassured me, “Don’t worry, your poetry is alive and well in your prose.” Continue reading
by Joan Schweighardt
“There’s so much more info about people transitioning, more awareness, but while people are not as shocked as they might have been thirty years ago, they are still shocked.” Continue reading
by Sonya Terjanian
Self actualization is by nature an inwardly-focused pursuit, but we must try to do it with our eyes open . . . understanding the origins of our opportunity, supporting others on the same journey, and lifting up those who weren’t born with the same privilege. Continue reading
by Evelyn Somers
“I feared the possibility that my potential . . . was a joke or a ruse, or it had vanished somewhere in the wilds of India or acid trips or too much Diet Coke.” Continue reading
by Martha Anne Toll
Weinzweig published her first novel at age fifty-eight. Given her mastery of the form, it is tempting to speculate that in a different era, she might have been able to take her writing seriously at an earlier age. Continue reading
