I've just spent a few intense days reading the galleys for my upcoming novel, Qualities of Light, which will be published this summer. ...

Do you pursue more than one art form? How does it help your writing? Are you toggling between the arts to good effect? Most days, I write. B...

Striving to get more voice, more emotion in your writing? One of my favorite nonfiction writers, Rick Bass, shares an important clue on how ...

A writer in my Loft Literary Center book-writing class was working on her memoir. She asked a really good question during the weekend worksh...

When I was in the deepest struggle with my novel, Qualities of Light, I took a one-day workshop from author Alison McGhee. Alison has won aw...

My ideal reader is a confused teenage girl; she feels like an outcast because her best friend just moved to Montana and nobody understands h...

A reader wrote: "I'm sure you hear this often--I'm stuck! I am great at first drafts, in fact I'm submerged in them. They n...

Five weekends each year, I travel from my home in Connecticut to Minnesota, to teach book-writing structure at the Loft Literary Center in M...

Writing practice is like walking a path and not knowing exactly where you're going, but enjoying the journey. To paraphrase my yoga tea...

I teach weekly writing classes for book writers at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester County near New York City. The beg...