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I discovered the Black American women writers, like Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Terry McMillan, Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange and…
I wrote my version of Rapunzel — Zel: Let Out Your Hair: a child whose afro hair grows up and…
T. E. Lawrence lost the only copy of his massive The Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a train and immediately…
I take notes, very neatly in pencil on a blank page at the end. When I’ve finished, I write a…
I can only have one novel on the go at any given time but with creative nonfiction, I often have…
If Deenie was cool, that meant it was okay to have scoliosis and not the shameful secret it had once…
I don’t come from a bookish family, so my addiction to reading was a surprise. My mother read cookbooks, my…
On its cover, a girl sits astride an alligator with sharp teeth. She’s being swept downstream to who knows where.…
The three or four pages I’ll be turning as I fall asleep remind me of the individual matchsticks from which…
Reading T. S. Eliot, I saw the images, got caught up in the rhythms with no awareness of separation. As…
As my understanding of the world grew, so my love for a broader spectrum of writing emerged. The tender brutality…
The great gift of myths are the many layers of meaning and understanding they bring, smuggled under the surface. Why…
