by Maddie King
There’s something exciting and liberating about the middle-aged debut. It’s a bit monstrous, actually . . . a Bloom writer, as a person who’s both “new” and “late,” is a bit grotesque. But that’s exactly where ideas spring free. Continue reading
by Maddie King
“Everything I write is colored by the desire to see beyond appearances, by my awareness of multiple viewpoints, multiple margins and centers operating at once.” Continue reading
by Ariadne Apostolou
“I am a writer who gets really passionate about certain subject matter, and then dives in and learns everything she can.” Continue reading
by Terry Hong
“I was concerned the hegemony of American influence was changing the way the world thought, looked, and shopped.” Continue reading
By Ericka Taylor
What I found interesting, in writing this book, was my growing awareness that these damaged people are nevertheless united by a strong sense of duty to one another, and that even within their difficult and often hurtful relationships, there is, at bottom, a real love for one another, something inviolable about family bonds. Continue reading
by Evelyn Somers
“At first there was this impulse to undercut [suspense and mystery] with irony to show, I don’t know, that I was too smart and high-minded to mean it, but I didn’t do that, and it became fascinating to try and write the scenes and twists well, to go all in.” Continue reading
by Ericka Taylor
“I wasn’t sure that I could create fiction that adults would want to read. My self-doubt flourishes. I applied to grad school at the University of San Francisco in creative nonfiction, was rejected, and, pissed off, signed up for an intro to fiction class at UC Berkeley Extension. I was terrified, but terror is good.”
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