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Profiles

A Conversation with Sherisa de Groot

When I was pregnant with my first child, I searched high and low for a place online that served my community in a way that didn’t leave us as the…

Profiles | May 2019 | By Amanda Jaros


A Conversation with Rebecca Makkai

I think it’s important for writers, especially new writers, to understand that everyone’s first novel was written under impossible circumstances. Most people are writing their first novel around the edges…

Profiles | April 2019 | By Stephanie Vanderslice


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A Conversation with Deesha Philyaw

Both parents have to be willing to start over, to treat co-parenting as a new, separate relationship—not a new battleground to keep rehashing the past or punishing the other parent.…

Profiles | April 2019 | By Amanda Jaros


A Conversation with Janine Kovac

Then, when my sons were in the NICU, I had a lightning-bolt moment. Life was short and unpredictable. I couldn’t just sit around and think about how someday I’d write…

Profiles | March 2019 | By Marianne Lonsdale


A Conversation with Jess Montgomery

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…

Profiles | February 2019 | By Rhonda Havig


A Conversation with Caitlin Shetterly

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…

Profiles | January 2019 | By Andrea Lani


A Conversation with Alicia Jo Rabins

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…

Profiles | December 2018 | By Camille-Yvette Welsch


A Conversation with Saadia Faruqi

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…

Profiles | December 2018 | By Rudri Bhatt Patel


A Conversation with Krystal A. Sital

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…

Profiles | November 2018 | By Christina Consolino


A Conversation with Claudia Hunter Johnson

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.…

Profiles | November 2018 | By Gina Consolino-Barsotti


A Profile of Susan Glaspell

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…

Profiles | October 2018 | By Laurie Paravati Phillips


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