This essay is excerpted from The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison, a recently released collection of essays from Haymarket Book and PEN America. Edited by PEN America’s ...

If you attend an author’s reading, you could walk away with a signed book, a brief connection with someone whose work you admire, possibly a tote bag. Or maybe the author will write a book inspired by ...

I’ve been writing my own story since shortly after getting sober in 1987. Writing it down made me see that I’d experienced a ...

Dear Caught in the Middle, Your letter made me think about the day I called my mother and asked if she would mind if I tried to write a memoir. (“Mind”!! I was so cute.) “It’s fine,” she told me, “as ...

“I didn’t enjoy writing fiction or reading fiction at the time, so I was reading collections of letters by writers,” said Li, who has taught in the creative writing program since 2008. A friend ...