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”
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Read This Book Now
If you’ve heard me talk about my experience in the MFA program at Pacific University, particularly my last two semesters, you’ve likely heard me talk about my advisor, Mary Helen Stefaniak. If you haven’t heard me gush about how much I learned during my two years at Pacific, haven’t heard me rave about how sharpContinue reading “Read This Book Now”