Here it comes! My next book!

Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents comes out September 1 from University of Nebraska Press. For this collection of all-original work, I commissioned 25 writers to explore a trait they’ve inherited from a parent, to reflect on how it affects the lives they lead...

Latest Obsession: Raising Monarchs

In their short-lived time as caterpillars, all they do is grow. That combines eating, pooping, sleeping, and molting. Rinse and repeat. My job is to clean the cages every other day, provide fresh and well-hydrated and parasite-free milkweed leaves for them to tuck into, and to wait. And watch. And wait…