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media debate • books • movies

Smith makes criticism approachable, without dumbing it down.

why I write • faith • visual art

The words I find most comforting during the pandemic are words of unity.

advice • teaching • interviews

It turns out that human beings—even writers—do need sleep. Authors are creative human beings, not machines.

fiction • memoir • writer's life

Privilege and racism are real, and not just in South Africa.

featured poets • poetry spotlights

Often when I tell people about my life, they ask, 'Poetry and mathematics?'

from adoption to writerly sins...

It’s not the spasms or pain I remember, only the damp, hot, itchy, smelly strips of wool.