Author and producer Shalom Auslander uses humor to recount stories of shame, sex and God as a young boy growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community. His books, “Beware of God,” “Foreskin’s Lament” and “Hope: A Tragedy” draw on his Jewish upbringing and early questions about faith. Auslander has published articles in The New York Times Magazine,...
“The act of writing poetry feels to me like seeking truth, finding ways to write that reveal truths even I may not have known before the poem came to be …” Lea Marshall, Associate Chair of the dance department at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, meshes her creativity in the fields of...
Sea and city: Beirut 2004. By Amira Pierce. In a city with few public parks, the Corniche Beirut is a perfect gathering place, a seaside promenade open to everyone. It’s where big luxury hotels meet everyday Lebanese, on broad walkways and dark rocks along the lapping Mediterranean. Today, as the sun sinks toward the water,...
Dr. Neal Hall, a graduate of Cornell and Harvard Universities, is a medical-surgical eye physician by day, and an internationally acclaimed poet by night. His poetry, which tells spine-chilling truths about injustice and inhumanity, has been performed in many countries outside of the United States, including: Kenya, Indonesia, France, Jamaica, Morocco, Canada, Nepal, Italy, and...
Photo Credit: Mary Chiaramonte Valley Haggard, founder and co-director of Richmond Young Writers, is an avid writer and mentor in the creative nonfiction community. With a B.A. in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, Haggard has pursued her passion for all things words. This has led her to write reviews and interview authors for Richmond-based...
