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On Our Way Home from the Revolution by Sonya Bilocerkowycz

Dear Sonya Bilocerkowycz, My name came from my maternal great-grandfather who fled from the Ukraine just before the man-made famine. Truthfully, I knew little about...

All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine

Dear Karen Babine As someone who also uses making food – “a mode of self-sufficiency”, a way of wrapping my head and hands around care...

The Long Grass by Lisa Rhoades

Dear Lisa Rhoades, In The Long Grass, you write about being a mother and daughter, illustrating how it is not easy to be a woman,...

Someone You Love Is Still Alive by Ephraim Scott Sommers

Dear Ephraim Scott Sommers,  I was sitting in a bay of chairs in the waiting area at the mechanic’s the first time I I read...

This Never Happened by Elizabeth (Liz) Scott

Dear Liz, My grandfather died while I was reading This Never Happened. He was a traditional man—he liked sitting on front porches and he believed...

You, Me, and the Violence by Catherine Taylor

Dear Catherine Taylor, Your book, You, Me, And The Violence, resists classification. It’s a mosaic of desperate pieces that beautifully unpacks the ethics of military...

Nice Things by James Franco

Dear James Franco, While I’m pursuing an MFA in fiction at USF, I am also working at a pizza restaurant. In fact, one of my coworkers coincidentally ended...

Be With Me Always by Randon Billings Noble

Dear Randon Billings Noble- For a period, I was a dedicated fan of the British Sherlock Holmes series on Granada television. Enthralled by Jeremy Brett’s portrayal of the...

Still Come Home by Katey Schultz

Dear Katey Schultz, When reading, Still Come Home, I was in a mason jar of dust and oak and apricot. The novel was a self-contained...

Quite Mad by Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Dear Sarah Fawn Montgomery, I have obsessive compulsive disorder. I was diagnosed when I was 17 but have experienced symptoms since I was 12. Before medication...

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