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Interviews, OutlinesJanuary 11, 2017

A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales

By Amanda Giracca

he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…

BookmarkedSeptember 14, 2016

Sarah Hepola’s Five Memoirists on Sex

By Sarah Hepola

My dirty secret about literature is that I’m always looking to put down a book. I read slowly. I have places to be. Some…

Interviews, Outlines, UncategorizedMay 19, 2016

Short Prose and Persistence: An Interview with Penny Guisinger

By Amanda Pleau

Penny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.

Women We Read This WeekApril 16, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

Palmer’s piece begins with a family on the run. It’s her family, but they have new names and are not sure where they’re headed.

Women We Read This WeekMarch 26, 2016

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

Catapult’s Adopted Essay Series This week, I’m highlighting two essays from the recent Catapult series on adoption, which was expertly collected and edited by…

OutlinesDecember 22, 2015

Loss and Labor: An interview with Mira Ptacin

By Eryn Loeb

In 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.

Women We Read This WeekDecember 18, 2015

Women We Read This Week

By Vela

Dao Strom’s We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People Dao Strom’s We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People is one of those…

Body of WorkDecember 2, 2015

Tough Odds, Lady Bird

By Erika Bolstad

I first noticed the robin one day in early June, as she swiped dead stalks from one of the two potted lavender plants on our deck.

Features, RecentOctober 20, 2015

The First Person on Mars

By Sarah Smarsh

Somewhere near Kazakhstan, the 1980s: At nighttime, surrounded by goats, a little girl lay on her back in a pasture and pointed a small telescope toward the stars.