Kim Church and I met more years ago than either of us chooses to calculate at VCCA: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts where we both had residencies. It was a beautiful summer, and in our off time, we played croquet and drank mint juleps. We had so much fun meeting up—Kim was such a [...]
P amela Erens’s second novel, The Virgins, was published by Tin House Books in August 2013. It was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New Yorker, The New Republic, Library Journal and Salon. The novel was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award for the best book of fiction [...]
Richard Peabody is author of the recent collection Blue Suburban Skies, published by the Mint Hill Books imprint of Main Street Rag, and the forthcoming The Richard Peabody Reader, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and published by Alan Squire Publications with SFWP. He's the founder and current editor of Gargoyle Magazine and editor (or co-editor) of twenty-two [...]
Claudia Smith's stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of the short-short collections The Sky Is A Well (reprinted in Rose Metal Press's A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women, and Put Your Head In My Lap (Future Tense Books), and most recently Quarry Light (Magic Helicopter Press). Bonnie ZoBell: [...]
Nathaniel Tower taught high school English in Missouri for nine years before moving to the Twin Cities with his wife and daughter. He currently works as an internet marketer and is the founding and managing editor of Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine and Press. His short fiction has appeared in over 200 publications. Nagging Wives, Foolish [...]
We San Diegans are proud to list T. Greenwood as one of our best fiction writers. She's the author of eight novels, all of which are great, but her latest, Bodies of Water, is exquisite. She's an active member of our writing community, teaches, and it's always fun to run into her at readings. Tammy [...]
Cris Mazza and I aren't sure how we first met. My guess is it was when we were both undergraduates at San Diego State University. Then we were both adjuncts and taught honors courses at San Diego Mesa College. We both love dogs. However our friendship first started, though, we've known each other for a [...]
What a fun reading with new bookstore So & So Books, friend to readers and writers. (Artistic director: Erin Osborn, Alice's six-eyar-old daughter.
