Their hope is that this project will help shift the perspective of those perpetuating Islamophobia and xenophobia as well as de-stigmatize Post-Traumatic Stress and other social issues.
I don't want to be pigeonholed. I don't want the only reason why you'd read my work to be an interest in Florida. James Joyce always wrote about Dublin, but you wouldn't just call him a Dublin writer.
I’d do what amounted to weird little Florida meditations, watching lizards stalk butterflies on my screen door or noticing the shifting coloration of the Spanish moss...
George Zimmerman had just been acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin, and Brendan and I, still strangers to one another at the time, were put on tour together to promote our debut novels. Neither of us wanted to be the one to bring it up, but both of us wanted to talk about it...