Pen on Fire
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettMostly about writing and the business of writing but sometimes about other things that relate.
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Hafeez Lakhani, author of ABUNDANCE
Hafeez Lakhani was born in Hyderabad, India and raised in suburban South Florida. His fiction and essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, Exposition Review, Salt Hill, Tikkun, The Cortland Review, and The Southern Review, and have garnered fell...
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Cassandra Neyenesch, author of A LITTLE BIT BAD
Cassandra Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer, activist, and curator. Cassandra’s reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, HuffPost, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America. She h...
Estelle Erasmus, author of WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED
Estelle Erasmus is a 2025 TEDx Speaker, an award-winning writing professor at New York University, and the author of Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published, named a “Best Book for Writers” by...
T.C. Boyle, author of NO WAY HOME
T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of thirty books of fiction, including, most recently, The Harder They Come (2015), The Terranauts (2016), The Relive Box (2017), Outside Looking In(2019), Talk To Me (2021) and I Walk Between the Raindrops...
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Books: Palm Springs Noir and Pen on Fire, a L.A. Times bestseller. Stories in Kelp Journal (Pushcart-nominated), Coolest American Stories, Rock in a Hard Place. Teaches here and there, including Gotham Writers Workshop. Co-host of Writers on Writing.
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