Profiles

The twenties are abundant with fascinating social, political, and economic issues and upheavals! So often, the first images that come to mind with “The Roaring Twenties” are glitzy flapper girls…

It was complicated being written about as a child. When your parent writes about you, there’s a bizarre thing that happens that feels like ownership, like somehow your parent owns…

I had my kids in my late thirties, so I had built a life as an independent adult woman who answered to no one; in profound ways, both my body…

I hope the Yasmin series will be a sort of permission for South Asian kids to be themselves. Kids like mine often feel torn between two cultures. Their heritage and…

Having the intense physical beauty of the islands juxtaposed with the naked violence against women became extremely important to me because it helped me show the shattering of that stereotypical…

That’s why I decided to write a memoir about it—to document our miraculous transformation, which wouldn’t have happened if I had gone on the trip intending to write a book.…

She suffered multiple miscarriages and understood that she would never become a biological mother. Glaspell sadly wrapped and put away the gifts of baby clothes, saving them until the end…

I continue to grapple with and discover more about recurring topics by approaching such from different angles. So, in this collection of flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and more traditional short…

Then, I had a kid, and he was a horrible baby. I was so tired, and I had no idea what had happened to me. All the ideas I had…

And the truth is that very little in most modern, Western kids’ lives is a tiger. As an editor, I would frequently get essays that were written in the heat…

I wanted the rhythm, dialogue, and story movement to create a kind of ping-pong sense in the reader. As if we were moving around in time in ways that both…