Susan Cerulean, author of the 2020 Sarton Memoir Award winner I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, has spent her working life searching for ways to protect Florida’s natural lands and […]
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An Interview with Debra Thomas, Author of Luz
Luz is the 2020 Winner of Sarton Award for Contemporary Fiction The award-winning novel Luz is the result of Debra Thomas’ desire to help the world’s people connect, better understand one […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Dani Alpert, Author of The Girlfriend Mom
The Girlfriend Mom is the 2020 Winner of SCN’s Gilda Award Dani Alpert calls herself an accidental writer. “Sure, I wrote overwrought and melodramatic poems in high school, but I never […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Jennifer Smith Turner, Author of Child Bride
Child Bride is the 2020 winner of SCN’s Sarton Award for historical fiction. Jennifer Smith Turner knows who she is and where she came from. “…my great-grandfather was a […]
Read MoreMeet Deborah Turner, Author of Sweating It Out
Smallwood: What is your educational background? Turner: I earned successive degrees from the Universities of California, Berkeley, Michigan, and then Washington, respectively. I majored in English and minored in Native […]
Read MoreMeet Denise David, author of Against Forgetting: War, Love, and After War
Denise David is a teacher, writer, scholar, wife, mother, and grandmother, but before any of that she was born the daughter of a British war bride, and that has made […]
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