How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?  I covered high school sports for local newspapers while I was still in high school. I planned to be a journalism major in...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?  I have a small notebook with a Beatrix Potter sketch on the cover, and my mother’s handwriting begins in the front. I was...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing? Like so many writers, I was an avid reader before I started writing, and writing became a natural extension of that process....

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing?  I would say it was a convergence of things: I took a lit course from an Ursuline Sister at Rummel High School, who taught...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember the first piece of writing? I mean, I started writing because I was in high school and had a lot to vent. The first poem I remember writing is a sad poem...

How did you get into writing? Like many writers, it seems that I have always written: poems and stories as a child and young adult, just playing around with words. But it wasn’t until I was in my forties...

How did you get into writing? Do you remember your first piece of writing? I don’t remember my first piece of writing, but I very much remember why I am writing and my first piece that mattered. My...

How did you get started writing poetry? In the early 1980s, not long after I began employment at Nebraska Wesleyan University as a horticulturist, I enrolled in a poetry-writing class taught by the...

How did your interest in poetry begin? I came to poetry late. I was studying to be a fiction specialist. In fact, my dissertation was on Faulkner’s novels. But while studying modern poetry in preparation...

Your latest novel In Our Other Lives was released on March 3, 2020. What do you want potential readers to know about the book? The story is told from the perspective of an NSA/FBI investigation into...

How did your latest work In a Good Time come about? Could you talk a little bit about the title? Various pathways led to In a Good Time. While the final push to publication came quickly (the book was...

What is your reason for writing? Or what role does writing play in your life? I write to find out, to stay green, to keep learning. Writing teaches me what I should be paying attention to. Do you...