Kelly Sundberg’s Eight Flash Nonfiction Writers
When I took over as the managing editor of Brevity, I steeled myself to wade through piles of imprecise and over-wrought malaise. Instead, I…
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Maggie Nelson’s Six Nonfiction Writers
The six writers listed below aren’t known, at the moment, primarily as writers of “creative nonfiction,” for lack of a better term (I’d rather…
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Sonya Huber’s Eight Midwestern Books
I have a bias toward Midwestern culture, partly because I’m from New Lenox, Illinois, a former farm town in the greater amorphous magical region…
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Sarah Stillman’s Six Reporters to Follow
In most parts of life, I’m a fiendish scribbler of lists (to-dos, to-reads, to-repents, etc.), but when it comes to this particular assignment –…
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Sheila Black’s Six Poets with Disabilities
When I was a kid with what is usually called “a visible disability,” braces on my legs, the only books people ever gave me…
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Katie Coyle’s Five Young Adult Authors
If you don’t read Young Adult fiction, you would be forgiven for thinking of it in terms of a few select titles. That’s because…
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Andria Williams’ Five Women Fiction Writers on War
As a fiction writer and a member of an active-duty Navy family, I am always curious about how the public views us military folk….
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Bookmarked: Hannah Stephenson’s Five Female Poets
Poetess: for me, the word conjures up a lady in a white ruffled gown, flung across velvet chaise, sighing and scribbling with a pen…
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Bookmarked: Rufi Thorpe’s Five Debut Novelists
As a debut novelist, I tend to read other debut novelists. I didn’t always. I used to read mostly books that were recommended to…
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Bookmarked: Brittany Shoot’s Seven Science Writers
When I joined The Magazine as managing editor a year ago, the publication’s editor-publisher (and my boss) Glenn Fleishman and I had a number…
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Bookmarked: Angie Chuang’s Five Female Journalists
The term “female journalist” implies that the gendered modifier is necessary because we assume that a plain old “journalist” is male. As with “male…
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Bookmarked: Elissa Bassist’s Five Female Humor Writers
Editor’s Note: Even in our hyper-connected age, it can be pretty easy to fall into the habit of reading the same writers in the…
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