Just got my Spring 2013 copy of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. Feeling happy and relieved to see “Night Crawlers” in print– I wrote the first draft in 1997, back when Tyler was still a boy. Thank you to the editorial staff at River Teeth for the selection and great editing of my … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
“Night Crawlers”
“Night Crawlers,” an essay featuring my son Tyler Lausten as a young fisherman, is included in the spring issue of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Vol. 14 No. 2, out now. Continue reading
“White Sugar”
“White Sugar,” another excerpt from the in-progress memoir A Woman Chasing Water, was selected for publication in the anthology Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s & 70s, due for release in August 2013 by She Writes Press, Berkeley, California. Continue reading
“About Rebecca”
“About Rebecca,” an excerpt from my in-progress memoir A Woman Chasing Water, received Honorable Mention in the 2013 New Millennium Writings nonfiction award competition. “About Rebecca” is, well, about Rebecca, who has a definitive role in A Woman Chasing Water, a tale of a woman running from danger and headlong into it, sometimes by chance, … Continue reading
“Afraid of the Dark”
Thank you, Susan Bono, editor of Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative, for publishing “Afraid of the Dark,” my second-place winning essay about paddling the Māliko run and my hānai father, Ed Bigelow. Tiny Lights can be purchased at http://www.tiny-lights.com. Continue reading