August 6, 2019
Playing the Long Game: An Interview with Anne Valente
In 2014, when I was studying in Bowling Green State University’s MFA program, I helped coordinate Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing. Our keynote speaker that year […]
May 30, 2019
Let It Be: In Memory of Wendell Mayo
Before sitting down to write this blog post, I went to the bookcase in my writing room and pulled out a tiny cloth sack of worry dolls. I hadn’t […]
September 3, 2018
Writing Is Thinking
Years ago, one of my writing acquaintances (we’ll call her B.) was working on her first novel when she received a suggestion from her instructor to be more specific about […]