Jenny Halper is a Brooklyn film critic and arts writer working on an MFA in creative writing. She is also working on a memoir about her childhood, which was filled with books, theater and reconstructive surgery. The birth defect she suffered from is corrected now, and her torso is complete with all the usual features [...]

April Sinclair is the author of three novels, including the award-winning bestseller Coffee Will Make You Black. Celebrated critically and commercially for her insights into the lives of modern black women, she’s now turned her sharp eye on her own life. Sinclair is currently at work on a collection of personal essays, and she’s been [...]

The deceptively simple sentence above is a haunting refrain in the hands of Cory Combs, a composer, educator, and bassist living in San Francisco. Cory is adding writer to that resume with his memoir about the mysterious death of his older brother, Chris. The finished book will probably be titled The Last Living Descendant of [...]

Laura Barcella is a writer currently living in San Francisco.
When I turned 19, my skin turned on me.
It started so simply-some dumb, cheap fake-silver ring I used to wear. I was finishing my tumultuous first year at a tiny, expensive hippie college in western Massachusetts. I still remember that May day in my dorm room [...]