An Interview With Author Tawni Waters

  Tawni Waters’s debut novel, Beauty of the Broken, was released by Simon and Schuster in 2014. In addition to winning the prestigious International Literacy Association’s Award for Young Adult Literature, it won the Housatonic Book Award, was named an exceptional book of 2015 by the Children’s Book Council, was shortlisted for the Reading the West… Continue reading An Interview With Author Tawni Waters

Spinning on a Breaking Pinnacle and Other Ways of Looking at Stress

My graduate creative writing thesis nearly broke me apart. And why shouldn’t it have? Completing the thesis was the hardest thing I have ever undertaken. It was the culmination of twenty years of school: a wide base of knowledge coming to the sharpest point and on that point I balanced. Thesis was a vortex, and… Continue reading Spinning on a Breaking Pinnacle and Other Ways of Looking at Stress