An Interview with Donna Dechen Birdwell: Author of Song of All Songs and Silver Winner in the 2020 SPR Book Awards
When Donna Dechen Birdwell was about ten years old, she became obsessed with the idea that if she was thinking with her brain, she ought to be able to think how it works! She’s been trying to wrap her mind around reality (and how humans experience it) ever since. After a brief stint as a newspaper reporter, she made a career out of anthropology – that utterly boundless science of humankind and how we got here – and then sidestepped into Buddhist philosophy and then art and photography and writing stories that tend to fall somewhere in the neighborhood of […]
Karen Hill Anton wrote the column “Crossing Cultures” for The Japan Times for 15 years. She lectures widely on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation and raising four bilingual, bicultural children. Originally from New York City, she’s achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy and has lived with her husband William Anton in rural Japan since 1975.
Author Denise Bossarte offers sage advice and encouragement to those who, like herself, were sexually abused in childhood by a family member, in Thriving After Sexual Abuse: Break Your Bondage to the Past and Live a Life You Love.
In 2013, I published the first novel in a new horror thriller series. The book is Tell Me When I’m Dead, and as I wrote it, I hadn’t thought about a sequel. By the time I got to the end, though, I began picturing scenes for the next book. When I finished Book Two, I was well down the path of writing a trilogy.