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Oksana Marafioti was 15 when her family moved to Hollywood. She’d grown up in Russia, touring with the family’s band of gypsies across the Siberian…

Las Vegas novelist Vicki Pettersson has just published the first volume of her new noir trilogy, Celestial Blues. The Taken tells the story of private eye…

"I want you to feel what I felt." That's what Tim O'Brien wrote about the Vietnam War. The veteran wrote a number of stories about his war experiences,…

Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist, playwright, and journalist. He edited the Al-Mulhaq, which became known as the "tribune of opposition" paper in…

Kelle Groom was a teenager when she gave up her son to be raised by her aunt and uncle. She soon downspiraled into alcohol and drugs. Then she found out…

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum writes stories that border on the supernatural. Her novel, Madeline is Sleeping, focused on a little girl shifting between the dream…

Cheryl Strayed has written a novel "Torch" and her new memoir " Wild" is out next month. It recounts her adventures on the Pacific Crest Trail. Strayed…

Waddie Mitchell didn't start out wanting to be a cowboy poet. Storytelling was just a part of life on the ranch - every cowboy writes poetry, he says. But…

Nevada's history is steeped in the nuclear tests that exploded across the desert in the 1950s. Nevada author Ann Ronald imagines what life must have been…

C.D. Wright was born in the Ozark Mountains, experimenting with saxophone, mime, and ballet, until she settled upon poetry. Since then, she has won a…