To all of you, blessings to your homes in the seasons to follow, that you may all have places to rest your heads, food enough to eat and store for the winter and a storage of words to pull out in the dark long nights of winter and weave blankets of poetry to warm the world during the long nights of winter.
Continue readingfrom Luanne Smith: If we end up using your suggestion…we’ll credit you…and I’ll personally send you $100 bucks.
Continue readingCMR: How is the rhythm of the desert different than living in a big city? The quality of light? In what ways has living in different parts of the country and world influenced your writing and activism?
Ana Castillo:
Wow, best question.
How many books have I authored to date, various
genres and including edited and translated? It’s not a competition in this business nor do I think quantity over quality.
April 7 Albuquerque and April 8 Santa Fe. Reading & book signing!
Continue readingI may be considered ‘old school’ by today’s standards and criteria but I believe in valuing my allies, even the imperfect and conflicted human beings involved in many of the same struggles.
Continue readingThe ink on agreements is still wet on the following but I’m so looking forward to getting out here is advance notice. I do hope you’ll mask up & join us if possible.
Continue readingWhile Omicron hit our household as it did with countless others over the holidays it isn’t the lead story in this writer’s life as we enter 2022.
Continue reading“Publishers’ Weekly, deals of the week: Castillo sells two to HarperOne” Most loving thanks to my new literary agent, Johanna Castillo (Writers House Lit Agency) and the powerhouse Tara Parsons, my new editor at HarperVia. The honor and pleasure is all mine. Now, nose to the grinstone!
Continue readingInterview with artist Mia Funk and Yesenia Olmos on The Creative Process: One of the things that is dying is our planet. We hear these sirens every single day. We’re being warned daily by experts and concerned people how vast that squandering is going. It’s a case of urgency and it’s astounding and a very sad, a very pathetic comment on modern life that most people are ignoring those signs…”
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