My mother-in-law once told me that she is the kind of reader who will stop reading once an author makes a stranger’s mistake about a place. A character turns up a street that doesn’t really exist in downtown Chicago, or the Texas landscape is mutilated to satisfy a plot twist. She’s the kind of readerContinue reading “Native Plants”
Author Archives: HMM
Women in Academia
A couple of weeks ago, I flipped through the mail and unceremoniously tore open an envelope stamped Do Not Bend. I slipped the diploma out and gazed at it, proof that my graduation from Pacific University’s MFA Program in Writing was, in fact, real. Then I stared, shocked, at what leapt off the Unbendable Page,Continue reading “Women in Academia”
Grey Sea & Sky 