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NAW Interview with Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer is the bestselling author of Cinder, Scarlet and the latest, Cress. She worked as an editor in Seattle for a while before becoming a full time writer. She lives in Tacoma, Washington. Visit her here. NAW- Please give me your bio…

‘The Esperanza Fire’ by John Maclean (Book Excerpt)

Esperanza Cover

John Maclean was a writer, editor, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for 30 years before he resigned his job there in 1995 to write Fire on the Mountain. Maclean was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943, the second of two children. An avid fly-fisherman,…

NAW Interview with Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph

Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne. More recently she wrote for the Times of India in Bombay and was Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India).…

NAW Interview with Dinesh C Sharma

Dinesh C Sharma

Dinesh C Sharma is an award winning journalist and author with over 30 years’ experience of reporting on science, technology, innovation, medicine and environment related issues for national and international media outlets. Currently, his columns appear in Mail Today, Indiatoday.in, Rediff.com, DNA…

NAW Interview with Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera

Romesh Gunesekera was born in 1954 in Sri Lanka where he spent his early years. Before coming to Britain he also lived in the Philippines. He now lives in London. His widely acclaimed first novel, Reef, was published in 1994 and was…

New Asian Writing Interview with John Maclean

John Maclean

John Maclean was a writer, editor, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for 30 years before he resigned his job there in 1995 to write Fire on the Mountain. Maclean was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943, the second of two children. An avid…

NAW Interview with Maria Chaudhuri

Maria Chaudhuri

Maria Chaudhuri was born and raised in Bangladesh. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Vermont. Her essays, features and short stories have…

NAW Interview with Sarah E. Fine

Sarah Fine

Sarah E. Fine is the author of the Guards of the Shadowlands YA urban fantasy series (Skyscape/Amazon Children’s Publishing), including Sanctum (October 2012) and Fractured (October 2013). The third and final book in this series comes out in October 2014.…

NAW Interview with Christine, Better Novel Project

Christine

Christine studied creative writing at The Johns Hopkins University, and then discovered the joy of research and outlines while in law school.  She writes the popular blog, Better Novel Project where she combines her twin passions to create a better novel–…

NAW Interview with Jesse Fink

Jesse Fink

Jesse Fink was born in London, England, in 1973 and raised and educated in Sydney, Australia, by his Australian parents. Fink worked for five years as a senior editor of non-fiction for HarperCollins Publishers Australia. In 2012 Fink released his second book,…

‘In This Babylon’ by Basit Olatunji

Basit Olatunji

( for Nigeria at 53 ) Eventful must this place be if we have to weed away like stubborn grass, the wastrels that mess with our mess.   Truculent we must be, if we have to lose ourselves possessed by…

NAW Interview with Samrat Upadhyay

Samrat Upadhyay

Samrat Upadhyay is the first Nepali writer to be published in the west to critical acclaim. His first book, the short story collection ARRESTING GOD IN KATHMANDU (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) has been translated into French and Greek and was the…