For me it’s about the joining the conversation. When you’re a reader, you are listening. When you write, you express. I was a reader early in life. The library was my refuge from the rest of childhood– chores, sports, cliques, the general confusion of being a human child. My siblings were readers. I was exposed…

Writing advice from my friend Jill: go for a walk in nature when you feel stuck. Ask for help solving the problem in your story and the solution will come, but “slant”, as Emily Dickinson says. Yes, exactly– go at it at an angle. It’s like kissing; if you go at it head on, you…