Social justice infuses nearly all my fiction, whether directly or indirectly, and I cannot imagine what shape my stories would take if they did not in some manner address this. Issues concerning social justice are most often what first move me to put pen to paper, even if the threads of the injustice are woven into a seemingly unrelated arc.
I don’t remember when I first started reading about the Occupy Wall Street Movement last year, but I do remember where. Facebook. People started posting about Occupy, asking why nobody was reporting on it. At first I thought the word Occupy was code for something I didn’t understand. Having lived outside the US for over […]
Since 2003 I’ve had the privilege of directing an MFA in creative writing program that is like no other, a program dedicated not only the education of literary artists but to community engagement and the pursuit of social justice—a program that stresses not only the refinement of craft and artistic vision but the rights and […]
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