Week 1: a Saturday evening sunset at Redondo Beach, a site that is now closed Week One (March 16-22): Two weeks ago, all schools in Los Angeles and most...
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17 Mar, 2020
“the new normal”…
17 Mar, 2020
photograph by Richshell Allen, Pasadena City College photographer – “What compelled you to write about social justice issues?”– “How do you push past ‘writers’ block?'”– “Can you talk about...
Read more14 Mar, 2020
charcoal, cancellations, & social distancing…
14 Mar, 2020
Yesterday, for my storytelling workshop at a Pasadena high school, I took blank paper and charcoal and zero instructions The situation changes from one hour to the next, and...
Read more19 Dec, 2019
“black wings” best of 2019 fiction / entropy magazine…
19 Dec, 2019
I don’t check my twitter account that often, but today when I visited the page to see some updates, I was surprised to see myself tagged by multiple writers....
Read more14 Nov, 2019
“instead of retiring, I’m refiring…”
14 Nov, 2019
Writers including Peggy DoBreer, Hazel Harrison, Angela Franklin, Tanya Ho Kong, Jessica Ceballos y Campbell participating in a conversation with Luis Rodriguez at Avenue 50 Studio “Instead of retiring, I’m...
Read more29 Oct, 2019
unexpected intersections…
29 Oct, 2019
Selfies: With Bettina Ng’weno (L); Sharon Fabriz (R) “I remember us facilitating Rice Writing Project sessions at the Rice School and how even then you had the title in mind....
Read more18 Sep, 2019
the next “on belonging” installment…
18 Sep, 2019
“You could do a reading at Scripps and create an installation,” Myriam Chancy offered when I showed her images from my On Belonging site-specific installation at Houston’s Menil Collection...
Read more26 Aug, 2019
celebrate our voices / / BAN THE WALLS . . .
26 Aug, 2019
The statement below (written collaboratively by Diya Bose, Alicia Vogl Saenz, and me) was read in the order of writers above: Jamie Asaye Fitzgerald, Alicia Vogl Saenz, Elline Lipkin, Manuela Traude Gomez, Diya...
Read more15 May, 2019
selling fast…
15 May, 2019
Top left: Gwendolyn Zepeda and some Houston Noir contributors at Murder by the Book, Houston, Texas; Top right: My reading at Skylight Books, Los Angeles, California; Bottom right and left:...
Read more26 Apr, 2019
on the move …
26 Apr, 2019
My reading at Rio Hondo College’s annual literary festival with an image of my father, Dr. Mohammad Sarwar, in the background; photo by Tom Callinan “Thank you, miss,” a...
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