Location plays a central role in my short fiction. Counter to my usually unnamed narrators and ethereal plots, I use place as a concrete foundation—the one solid element of the story for my reader to latch onto. Most often it’s …
On Place: Constance Renfrow Read more »
Place shapes our lives in unseen ways every day. I’m especially interested in how choices made in the distant past shape our present day landscape, affect our emotional well-being, our psychology, and the choices we make about how to live …
On Place: Erik Moe Read more »
Place in Frankfurt The stories I call good burrow into the reader’s mind, then come back like a tenacious virus. Place, for me, is what wakes the virus. I walk through the streets of a city and there’s the story, …
On Place: Miriam Vaswani Read more »
In honor of my first poetry collection, I Have Conversations with You in My Dreams, in which most of the poems engage with place in some way, I have asked other writers, authors, and poets to compose blog posts about …
About the “On Place” Series Read more »
Like most authors, my desire to write books comes from my love of reading them. My library is stuffed with novels and poetry collections, and books crowd my stairs and hide in my closets. As a child, I read as …
Dear Robot Blog Hop Read more »