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Writing Our Cultural Mosaic

Hello Writers,  it was deeply wonderful to meet old friends and new writers at the  NESCBWI ’17 conference   Here are handouts from the workshop, “Writing Our Cultural Mosaic” I presented at the conference with the extraordinary Susan Lynn Meyer,

The Refugee Experience, ALA Booklist for Teens

ALA-YALSA offers a reading list of YA fiction and nonfiction to help teens understand the refugee experience.  The Refugee Experience for Teens.  The comments section took me to work of nonfiction I have to read, In the Sea There are Crocodiles, the story

“Hard Love” Story – Interview with VOA Cambodia

Soksreinith Ten (call her Nith, she told me) , a reporter with Voice of America just interviewed me for their English and Khmer News Service about Either the Beginning or the End of the World. She asked, in a few

CuriousCity’s Month-by-Month in Kit Lit

For everybody celebrating the world’s events and joys and books that honor them, take a look at this magic created by Kirsten Cappy at Curious CityDPW. Curious City offers month-by-month book engagement programming kits, event kits, and book club and

Elsa Marston’s Love Affair with Lebanon

Here is what I imagine.  Elsa Marston’s literary love affair with Lebanon and the Middle East might also have been about a love affair with her husband, Iliya Harik. He was from Lebanon and taught at Indiana University all their

Thank you, Ohrstrom Library Visiting Author Series

This is an article featuring the complicated discussion we had at St. Paul’s School around my novel The Good Braider. What a honor to explore deeply with students in Dean of Chapel Alice Courtright’s Humanities Class:  Writer Terry Visits Humanities Classes. 

“Food unites us and binds us sisters and brothers”

  This week I had the great pleasure of bringing The Good Braider to St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. I spoke at morning Chapel (pictured above in a photo taken in January). Chapel – we gathered at 7:40

Honoring Refugees at St. Paul’s School

              This week I had the great pleasure of bringing The Good Braider to St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. I spoke at morning Chapel (pictured above in a photo taken in January).

Ezo African Restaurant: A Letter from Portland, Maine

By Terry Farish …A restaurant in Portland links African refugees with their past and Maine with its future. Here’s an article I wrote some years ago.  Ezo is now replaced by Asmara Restaurant.  This story is replayed today in countless,

Refugee Stories

Soksreinith Ten, a reporter with Voice of America News, just interviewed me for their English and Khmer News Service. She asked, in a few words what is your novel about? I said it’s about a mother and daughter. They love