The MFA at FAU

I admire the sentence that carries its own weight unapologetically. As such, I don’t fully embrace the distinction between non-fiction and ...

One of my favorite movies of the year was Whiplash .  Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an aspiring drummer for Terence Fletcher’s (J.K. Simm...

My curiosity about how truth functions in writing is insatiable—so much so that last year I wrote a blog post about it. The blog starts wi...

When does a writer cease being a writer? For the last year and a half, I've lived in Portland, Oregon, working as a social me...

    When Julia Roberts walks into Hugh Grant’s travel bookshop in the movie   Notting Hill , Grant immediately (though, yes, with hesitanc...

Hi. Guess what? You've survived the Fall semester. And not only have you survived it, now you get a break full of lights and holidays an...

Writers have a unique power that if not used for good can have everlasting consequences. Right now I have you hooked; you keep reading beca...