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What, Why, How: Andrew Devendorf and his missing brother

November 4, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I wrote a personal essay on the grueling experience of having my brother go missing, and later learning that he died by suicide. When my brother went missing, I learned that we have … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Aaron Hamburger

August 19, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I write literary fiction and non-fiction. All of my books have been fiction (two novels and a story collection), but I’ve written a great deal of creative non-fiction, especially memoir … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Kathie Giorgio

June 3, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: I'm a writer and I have been for my entire life. I create short stories, novels, poetry, and essays. No matter what I'm writing, I tend to focus on social issues, often touching on … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Jean Alicia Elster

April 29, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: As a professional writer, I have produced works in multiple genres: I have edited and ghostwritten several nonfiction books. Also, my memoir-based essays have appeared in national … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Poet Mary Jo Firth Gillett on writing from the “muddle”

April 15, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What: Since the earliest days, I’ve been drawn to language, the sound of consonant, vowel, syllable. My parents made a recording of me at three reciting nursery rhyme after nursery rhyme in … Continue reading >>

What, Why, How: Dorene O’Brien

April 8, 2019 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

What? I have published poetry and essays, but at heart I am a fiction writer. My first story collection, Voices of the Lost and Found, is a group of gritty, unflinching, largely tragic stories told … Continue reading >>

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