Short-story authors Diana Xin & Hillary Behrman present their books. In Book of Exemplary Women, Xin's debut short story collection, women across different stages of life—and death—resist erasure and make their stories known. Contending with scorned lovers, bothersome ghosts, and their own unruly desires, these women hold the world at bay while holding each other […]

The settling of the American West remains an indelible panorama in the world of the imagination. Pioneers. Cowboys. Indians. The movement of American hegemony across a wild and untamed continent created frictions and power struggles that reverberate to this day. “AN ACT OF FAITH is a collection of short stories and visions from that era, […]

Join Island Verse for an evening with Rebecca Woolf, bestselling memoirist, feminist writer, and fierce advocate for women telling the complex and piercing and paradigm-shifting truth of their lives.