Author of The Mother Gene, 2023 Sarton Winner: Contemporary Fiction Lynne Bryant says living two vastly different lives influenced her when writing The Mother Gene. One of those lives was […]
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An Interview with Irena Smith
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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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 […]
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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 […]
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