Dear friends, My book has gotten some reviews, which is really wonderful and exciting. Here are links to all the ones I could find: ...

I have a new website for book-related news. See it here . I also set up a TinyLetter. You can subscribe here . I'll be doing some ...

My first novel, which I've been working on for nearly as long as I've had this blog, will come out on April 9th, 2019. Many ex...

Enormous Eye is a kind of writing project--art project?--by Amy Rose Spiegel of Rookie. Various writers--not all young, but mostly, not al...

I'm so happy to share my first piece for Gothamist , about a power animal workshop with a shaman!

I am really excited to report that my first article for Fusion was published today! See it here (photos included)!

Now that I'm coming to the end of my fiction MFA, I thought I'd try to record the most essential lessons I learned.

I think about these two all the time: Jonathan Rosen about passenger pigeons, 6 Jan 2014: In 1813, John James Audubon saw a flock—if th...

Missed Time Ha Jin   My notebook has remained blank for months thanks to the light you shower around me. I have no u...

"The Beer" by Kimya Dawson. It's really more of an incantation and it is brutal. I remember a friend's quasi-abusive ex...

  Above: My palette right before I cleaned it for the last time, May 2012 In the fourth Betsy-Tacy book and the last childhood o...