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Continue reading →: What Happened and What to Do: A Post-Election Conversation from Writers for Democratic Action
On Saturday, November 16, I attended a post-election conversation with members of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) called “What Happened and What to Do.” It was held virtually via Crowdcast, hosted by Books & Books bookstore, and led by poet, journalist, and WDA steering committee member Jo-Ann Mort along with…
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Continue reading →: United States of Dystopia
“Despair is not an option. It helps no one.” – Margaret Atwood Following the 2024 election of Donald Trump, Margaret Atwood posted on X: “Despair is not an option. It helps no one.” Atwood is the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and its sequel The Testaments, two dystopian novels that…
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Continue reading →: Updates: January 2025
It just so happens that this month begins my thesis coursework for the MFA program at SNHU, and so I am furiously writing. I’m also taking some time to update my website. I hope you’ll enjoy. If the comment features aren’t working—they should be, but I’m not certain—please send me…
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Continue reading →: Lessons from Orkut: It’s All About Culture!
Photo by Merakist on Unsplash As humans, we are social creatures. With the technologies made possible by Web 2.0, we have more opportunities than ever to be our social selves, especially in the online worlds we choose to inhabit. We look to our online communities for connection, knowledge, and entertainment; sometimes we even…
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Continue reading →: The Everyday Ease of Weixin
Photo by 偉宗 勞 on Unsplash Time is everything to me. Perhaps you feel this way too. I’m not sure if it’s the stage of life that I’m in, or the demands I’ve placed on myself—let’s go back to school for that MFA, and finally publish that first novel—or if it’s something greater,…
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Continue reading →: Cyberactivism? The Breast Cancer Meme: Going Viral vs. Going the Distance
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash If you were on Facebook in 2010, it’s likely that you encountered the Breast Cancer Meme, where women were sharing their bra colors without explanation. The meme was intended to raise awareness about breast cancer. Thousands of users chose to participate, in part because so many people…
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Continue reading →: The Vision of Warby Parker
I’m a writer, of course, which means I’m drawn to story in the way that a bird is drawn to open sky. With story, there is limitless potential, which makes the sky metaphor all the more apt. Photo by Daniel Lincoln on Unsplash Warby Parker’s Brand Story Warby Parker’s story is about imagining…
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Continue reading →: July 2023 Interview, MFA-Style
A huge thank you to novelist Alicia Masztal for the thoughtful questions and engaging chat! Alicia interviewed me for our MFA class called Finding & Reaching an Audience. As you can see, we are having a great time! Alicia Masztal: Hello to author Kari Nguyen. Thank you for allowing me…
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Continue reading →: 2022 Books Read 📚
Moratorium by Gary Percesepe This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Persist by Elizabeth Warren The Highly Sensitive Child by Elaine N. Aron You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays…
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Continue reading →: Has It Been Another Year? My 2021 Reading List.
Without any further ado, here was 2021: The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (reread) The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon From the Umberplatzen by Susan Tepper (reread) A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (reread) The Third Hotel…
Curious stories.
I didn’t set out with the intention of writing dystopian stories. For a long time, I tried writing everything else. But I’ve found that my truest characters, and the worlds that become the most alive for me, are the ones which are the least free. That the truth is most impactful and the most moving when it is threatened. That sometimes it takes turning oneself inside out to see the beauty of that dark heart they want to suppress.
“We need our dystopian stories to reflect some truth of our own known world…”
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