After “What’s next,” the question I’m asked most often is, “What drives me, what keeps me going?” One major source of inspiration is other writers carving out a way of their own. It doesn’t matter what genre they’re working in,…
Heidi Durrow grew up as the middle child of an African-American enlisted Air Force man and a white Danish woman. Raised in North Carolina, Turkey, Washington state, and Germany, she spent summers and holidays in her mother’s Danish hometown. A…
Pamela Erens is a graduate of Philips Exeter Academy and Yale University and the recipient of a 2014 fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Reader’s Digest called her One of 23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now. Her…
Long-time Boston resident Anjali Mitter Duva’s debut novel takes us to sixteenth-century Rajasthan to recount the birth and coming-of-age of Adhira, a girl born into a family of temple dancers. Duva has woven together strands of her father’s upbringing in…
E.B. Moore lives in a city loft, but writes her way back to farm life in Pennsylvania where she grew up. She retired as a metal sculptor in her fifties and hung her tools on the loft beams before looking…
Author Celeste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Shaker Heights, Ohio before attending Harvard University. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she received the Hopwood Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals…