How the Paradise fire, Northridge earthquake and Hurricane Katrina inform this author’s work
In “Paradise on Fire,” an East Coast kid named Addy is spending the summer learning about nature out West. She’s in all-new terrain, but her...
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How I Came to Write Voodoo Dreams
I can remember as a college scholarship student, surviving on bagels and high hopes, how I came across a reference to Marie Laveau in a Creole...
How I Came to Write Douglas’s Women
My novel, Douglass’ Women, is an imaginative rendering of two women in Frederick Douglass life—his wife, Anna Douglass, and his mistress of...