Profiles

Novelist Nicola Harrison shares the inspiration for her latest novel, The Show Girl, and why she loves historical fiction.

Former Literary Mama Editor Jamie Sumner shares her journey to becoming an author and how to write great characters.

Mother and plant ecologist, Kimmerer invites us to examine and embrace the wonders of our world through the pillars of Indigenous wisdom.

I wanted to write a book that felt like entering someone else’s secret garden.

COVID-19 shifted the pace of the world, at times almost stopping it, but Zibby Owens, podcast host and author, didn’t let the pandemic get in her way.

The decision that my daughter’s birth mother made, perhaps the hardest she ever had or will ever make, brought me the most happiness, and that is a strange balance to accept.

Nostalgia pulled me into this story, but I needed to step away from it in order to write a book.

“I cannot teach anyone to be an artist, but then I don’t have to because everyone is already an artist.”

“This was my hope—to join in a larger conversation about miscarriage—and I’m really touched that readers have found my work.”

” . . . my life as a Black woman, mother, artist, and traveler is varied and nuanced and rich.” Camille T. Dungy

I think the thing that serves any writer best, and has certainly served me, is to be honest. To have a point of view. Tell your story. Know your own voice and figure out how to get it on the page.