Author of The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays, 2023 Gilda Winner Irena Smith says she is still in a state of happy disbelief that her book, The Golden Ticket: […]
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Interview with Valena Beety, Author of Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
Sarton winner Valena Beety says she has been a writer since she was a kid, but she’s learned there’s a big difference between writing for oneself and writing for an […]
Read MoreInterview with Kimberly Garrett Brown, Author of Cora’s Kitchen
Kimberly Garrett Brown, author of Cora’s Kitchen, knew from age twelve that she wanted to be a writer, but it wasn’t until she read Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones […]
Read MoreInterview with Anastasia Zadeik, Author of Blurred Fates
Anastasia Zadeik never imagined she would become one of the authors she has come to admire, but writing is something she has always done, beginning in a puffy, pink vinyl […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Margaret Nowaczyk, Author of Chasing Zebras: A Memoir of Genetics, Mental Health and Writing
In her first year of medical school, Margaret Nowaczyk, author of this year’s Sarton Award winner for Memoir, was taught to always consider common diseases before the rare. “‘If you hear […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Sallie Weissinger, Author of Yes, Again: (Mis)adventures of a Wishful Thinker
Sallie Weissinger’s book, Yes, Again: (Mis)adventures of a Wishful Thinker, started as a journal that kept growing until it finally reached a true fairytale ending. Once the Gilda-winning author decided […]
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