Books, Arts, and Culture

A few years ago, Portland author Monica Drake invited me to participate in a female writers panel. I accepted her invitation, and the subject that we...

I’m a poet who wrote a novel. I also teach an MFA class titled The Poet’s Novel. And so my bookshelf contains no shortage of—wait for...

In the middle of our bed, my wife and I set our three-week-old down on his belly. We hadn’t yet moved into our new home that...

Whatever bad luck I had hoped to leave in 2022 obviously followed me into the new year. This is to say that I spent January doing...

I am a memoirist, a writer who juices the moments and characters in my life as a way to make sense of it all.  This proves...

As a Palestinian in diaspora, nothing builds my connection to the land more than literature. It is not just the scenes detailed by our great poets...

Every year, I love to write about the upcoming YA book adaptations hitting both the big and small screen in the new year. This year might...

Cozy mysteries are about so much more than solving a murder. We love them for the mysteries, sure, but we also come back for more because...