Meg Tuite is one of those creative people who's brilliant at everything she does. Her fiction and poetry are stunning and her main form, but you should see her paintings and even the wonderful décor and yard art in the backyard of her adorable adobe home in the Southwest. Meg's fiction is out of this [...]
Mary Akers is one of my heroes. Not only is she an immensely talented writer, but she's nice. And generous. Through the years she's always been willing to help other writers, including me. I first "met" her at Zoetrope Virtual Studio, maybe ten years ago. Fortunately I've been able to meet her in person several [...]
For years there was a man named Jim Ruland who lived in San Diego like I did. People spoke of him with reverence, yet I'd never met him. Finally, we had so many mutual friends that I emailed him and introduced myself. He was utterly friendly and suggested we get together for coffee and talk writing [...]
One of the great things about writers conferences is getting to meet so many talented writers that you might not get to meet otherwise. Especially if you're from a place not exactly considered a literary mecca. Such is the case with Jennifer Murphy, a very gifted writer from Seattle, whom I first met at the [...]
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I met Heather Fowler at the Denver AWP in 2010. The irony is there aren't that many literary writers living in San Diego, and we'd never met before. I was so impressed with her writing and we hit it off so well that I was grateful to quickly become good friends, get to watch her [...]
Roy Kesey is one of our best contemporary writers. His stories and novels are set all over the globe, so we're able to gain insight into how different peoples think, what their values are, and how they live their lives, and the tales themselves are full of original and poetic language, not to mention extraordinary [...]
Len Joy and I have been writing buddies for over a decade. We were both involved in Zoetrope Virtual Studio, a big online writing community where we shared news, discussed writing, and critiqued each other's work. I've always loved his flash fiction and stories and was honored to get to read some excerpts of his [...]
After years of knowing Bud Smith casually on Facebook, I finally had the pleasure of meeting him in person at last year's AWP, where we participated in a private Hot Pillow AWP reading in someone's hotel room. I was so impressed with what he read from his book Tollbooth that I couldn't wait to get [...]
David Jauss is the author of three books of short fiction, Black Maps, winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction, Crimes of Passion, and Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories. He's also published two poetry collections and the essay collection On Writing Fiction. A fourth collection of stories, Last Rites: More New & Selected Stories, is [...]