At the library

A friend just sent me this pic from a display at the San Anselmo Public Library in Marin County, California. I love our libraries! So grateful to see my novel highlighted. (Mother Mother, top shelf.)

Interview in The Bookends Review

I’m grateful to my MFA buddy and friend, Diane Gottlieb, for placing this interview with me in The Bookends Review. The piece was published on April 13, 2022, but I’m a little behind in everything. An excerpt: After you wrote Mamalita, you switched to fiction and wrote your first novel, Mother Mother. What was behind that decision? […]

One Year!

My novel Mother Mother launched a year ago this month. The characters and scenes began to obsess me almost as soon as my memoir Mamalita was published. In my dreams and awake I heard Rosalba and Juan, Julie and Mark. I saw Rosalba’s village in San Rolando and Julie’s art museum in San Francisco. The […]

“For a limited time only” (as they say)

Just in case you were thinking of buying my novel, Mother Mother, but haven’t gotten around to it yet: I was checking my listing on Amazon (as one does ) and noticed a huge price drop on the paperback, to $7.93. Now whether this is a good sign or a bad one, I don’t know, […]

Christmas 2020

No date stamp needed on this year’s holiday card. Season’s Greetings from us to you! xoxo PS: The kids are standing on a fence behind us. They’re tall, but not that tall. Photo taken at Muir Woods.