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Woman of the Hour—Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion
Woman of the Hour, my first flash fiction collection, will be published by Vine Leaves Press in July 2025. I published my first piece of flash fiction in Hobart in 2015. I went on to write a hundred more stories to practice my skills and get comfortable with writing in English. My mother tongue is Dutch and I was publishing novels in the Netherlands. But by then I’d been living in Paris with an American for over a decade and I wanted to enter a more international market. In my essay in Past Ten, I explain about how I came to write in English and how vulnerable that made me…
Ten Books by Japanese Authors in Translation
A great way to get a feel for a country, other than living there, is to read its literature. While was in Japan in 2023, I read a lot of Japanese authors in translation. For this post, I’ve limited myself…
Closed Circle: New Flash Fiction in the Sunlight Press
The others and I hike up the winding trail from the riverbank to the queen of glacial waterfalls. The canyon is steep and stark as though warning me for what’s to come. Forty-five meters high, a hundred meters wide, two…
Seven Books on Grief and Loss
Here are seven books on grief and loss I recommend: More nonfiction recommendations? Read my words on:
Places We Left Behind
The painful thread running through Lang’s moving memoir Places We Left Behind is the question of sacrifice. What should we give up for the person we love?
Meet Châu Quỳnh Lê from Swing Love
Swing Love: Meet the woman whose love for swing dance inspired her business in handcrafted sustainable leather shoes in Vietnam.
Micro Memoirs in DIAGRAM
Three micro memoirs in DIAGRAM about murder as a protective force, the sound of lines slapping against masts, and childhood shame.