Back to the Indie Corner series I’m delighted to present Claire Datnow as this month’s Indie Corner author. Claire was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, which ignited her love for the natural world and diverse cultures. Claire taught creative writing to gifted and talented students in the Birmingham, […]
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Click here to return to the series Intro This month we travel to the world of Motswana author Tlotlo Tsamaase, whose short story “Eclipse Our Sins” rocked me in a good way. You can read the story at Clarkesworld. I featured this story in my last article at Medium, Part […]
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I talked with Julie months ago and am finally happy to be able to share her interesting story! Julie Carrick Dalton is the author of the forthcoming novels Waiting for the Night Song (Forge Books, Jan. 2021) and The Last Beekeper (2022.) She grew up in Maryland and on a […]
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Click here to return to the series About the Book Thanks so much to Stormbird Press‘s Donna Mulvenna for allowing the reprinting of this interview. She talked with Amy Barker about her new novel, Paradise Earth, published by Stormbird Press in early 2020. Amy was the winner of Australia’s 2008 […]
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Click here to return to the series We’ll end the crazy year of 2020 on a positive note, with a look at the lyrical novel Fauna by Christiane Vadnais. Here, we travel to the Arctic Circle (as indicated by Ursus maritimus), but the novel’s setting is fictional and inspired by […]
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Click here to return to the series This November we virtually travel to South Korea and to a fictional island off the coast of Vietnam as we explore The Disaster Tourist (Serpent’s Tail in the UK / Counterpoint Press in the US, 2020). Thanks so much to author Yun Ko-eun […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series It was my pleasure to talk with Indie Corner spotlight author Neus Figueras, who was born in Barcelona and grew up in a small village among the vineyards of the Penedès region. If she wasn’t running through the streets or the open fields, she […]
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Click here to return to the series About the Book It’s my pleasure to talk with Catherine Bush, fellow Canadian and author of the new novel Blaze Island. It’s just a coincidence that we moved to the Maritimes and experienced our first hurricane shortly after Catherine and I began talking. […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Welcome to our second interview in the new Indie Corner series. This month we talk with Shirley DicKard about her independently published novel Heart Wood: Four Women, for the Earth, for the Future. I was fascinated that Shirley lives in the neighborhood of Gary […]
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I’m so happy to talk with Antonia Santopietro, who runs ZEST Letteratura Sostenibile. We’ve collaborated on a few projects, this one–a two-part feature of Italian authors, beginning on August 11th–is the biggest so far. Together we planned this article, which became large enough to break into two parts for the […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Our first Indie Corner welcomes Esther T. Jones, who has been writing stories in her head since she was five. She loves wandering the wilds of rural America–where she’s dreamed up many a story. When not writing, Jones can be found gardening, playing flute […]
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Women Working in Nature and the Arts I recently had the chance to discover a new voice in the field of ecofiction: Lovis Geier’s, who runs the YouTube channel Ecofictology. Lovis is perfect for bringing the field of ecological fiction to a visual perspective, for she is knowledgeable, witty, and […]
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Click here to return to the series About the Book I was drawn to this book after reading Anna Burke’s Compass Rose, which tied Hurricanes Maria and Irma to climate change, albeit it had a different approach (science fiction and fantasy) as opposed to Aya’s novel Side Chick Nation (contemporary […]
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Click here to return to the series This month’s spotlight goes to a country not showcased before in the world eco-fiction series: Russia, specifically the Kamchatka peninsula, which dips down from the far eastern coastline of the country and lies between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea. It […]
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Click here to return to the series About the Book It’s coming on winter, yet I’m heading into warm sunshine, surf, and sand–with my mind freshly ensconced in Melissa Volker’s novel Shadow Flicker (Karavan Press, 2019), which immersed me into beautiful east South African beaches and surfing life. Despite the […]
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