My new book, The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety , is hitting the streets and bookshelves near you...

"So when we look at how a character changes the narrative of her life, we learn a lot about how we can do this too," I told ten people in...

Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...

The tagline for the film Big Sonia is “Holocaust survivor. Grandma. Diva.” True that, but she’s also quite the Holocaust scholar, fluent...

As many of you know, I’m leaping from my day job of college-level teaching to creating more transformative writing, community-building...

In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...

We stopped at Crystal Bridges Friday night about 7:30 p.m., figuring it was closed but wanting to scope out the place. It was open until...

Our long gravel drive was puddled and muddy, so there was no way the huge semi carrying my new book, Miriam's Well: A Modern Day Exodus,...

I’ve learned over the years that it’s never a mistake to drive around with a bookstore in a rolling suitcase just in case, and that’s especially true when there’s a new book in the house (and car). Everyday Magic, landing under the UPS tree in a big pile as if dropped by a passing spaceship, is stepping out and waving its friendly arms at people. In the last few days, I’ve hauled over two dozen books (and they’re big and heavy, over 400 pages each) to the post office to mail,

As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...

Yet my life, this book, Kansas, and haunted houses are nothing I could have imagined. The Koester House, a beautiful home in downtown...

Hanging out with Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books in Wichita, and mutually admiring Katherine Towler’s great anthology GOD IN THE...

It happened again.Yesterday, the long-awaited email arrived from the agent reading my revised (as per her suggestions) novel. In short,...