Stephanianna Lozito used fiction to process the complex emotions of her real-life family tragedy: her sister’s 2009 suicide. The resulting novel, We Turn to Face the Sun, debuted earlier this year and examines the dynamics of a close-knit Italian-American family…
SQUIRE is a graphic novel full of sweeping settings, wonderful characters, and lessons for the upcoming generation of leaders. It debuts today, and I spoke with author and illustrator Sara Alfageeh about how she and co-creator and writer Nadia Shammas…
Alison Stine is a poet by training, an essayist and reporter for The New York Times and other national publications, and her latest novel Trashlands comes out next week on October 26. Set in a dystopian future where discarded plastic is…
After a career as an executive at several global companies, Michael Rose began writing novels. Publishing fiction has been an ambition since childhood, but as he puts it “was something from the top tier of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and…
In December of last year, I attended the Massachusetts Conference for Women on behalf of my day job. There were dozens of wonderful speakers that gave me a lot to think about when it comes to leadership and career planning….
Six years ago, I was finishing a first draft of my still-in-progress novel and got stuck at the final scene. My heroine needed to thwart an elaborate ATM scam run by her charismatic captors. How exactly had they pulled off…