Updates from the Wisconsin woods
How Do You Know When It’s Done?
What a tree taught me about letting go after working on a book for 12 years.
What Writing Under the Constant Threat of Deluge Taught Me about the Creative Process
It felt like a monsoon, but we were not outside, there was no wind or sky; we were in my writing studio on the second floor of a water tower. Whenever I do creative work, I do it with two, two-hundred-and-fifty-gallon tanks of water overhead.
4 Things I Learned About Trauma While Writing My Latest Novel
Sometimes, when we hear a label or a term, and we think we know what it means, we stop paying attention. The word trauma turned out to be one of those terms I thought I understood.
A WINTER’S RIME now available for pre-order
Haunting, hypnotic and deeply affecting, A Winter's Rime shimmers with hard-won wisdom. —Jillian Medoff, bestselling author of When We Were Bright and Beautiful
A story about sisterhood and second chances, find out what nature can teach us about bearing hardship. Coming September 2023.
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NYT Modern Love: My Essay “Loving Him More…”
From the moment my husband and I first kissed, I had the feeling that he and I had been trying to reach each other for centuries. That we had lived past lives with arms outstretched, always yearning for the other, but for reasons tragic and outside of our control — war, famine, feuds — we were never able to be together.
My essay about my husband's head made the NYT!
Carol Dunbar, “Loving Him More When He Walks Out the Door,” Modern Love, New York Times, Feb. 4, 2022.
