It’s with great pleasure that I introduce readers to Joseph Ruak. Joseph is Repagu’nu’worh and was born and raised on the island of Saipan, the setting of Nancy Bo Flood’s debut YA novel, WARRIORS IN THE CROSSFIRE. His father’s family came from the outer islands of Chuuk and settled on Saipan during a time when [...]
Today, I’m excited to talk with Stephen Roxburgh, founder of namelos, about Nancy Bo Flood‘s beautifully written debut YA novel, WARRIORS IN THE CROSSFIRE. Nancy and I met at Vermont College of Fine Arts and it was there, in a workshop led by Marion Dane Bauer, that Nancy first began to revise WARRIORS. DW: WARRIORS [...]
I had no idea when I chose my selection for Poetry Friday that the round-up was being hosted by PaperTigers. It seems providential somehow, that the poem I chose to post (with permission) is one my good friend, Nancy Bo Flood, shared in an email early this morning. By pure coincidence, Nancy was a guest [...]
It’s Poetry Friday and Julie Larios/The Drift Record is hosting this week. On the floor beside my computer is a favorite book/poem of childhood, “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” by Eugene W. Field. I have vague recollections of someone – my mother, probably – reading it to me. And another memory of the shoe-shaped sailing ship, [...]
I've lived and traveled around the world, but now make my home in California.
By day, I teach; evenings and many weekends, I write.
My teaching, reading, and writing eventually led to a Master's degree in Language and Literacy and, later, an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
My first picture book, BLUE ON BLUE, illustrated by the amazing Beth Krommes, will be published by Beach Lane Books (Simon and Schuster) in 2014.
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