More good Busara Road news!

More good Busara Road news! Busara Road, the novel, has won the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for small-press publication! … More

Sad news from Kenya

The wonderful writer Binyavanga Wainaina has died at the age of 48. His memoir, One Day I Will Write About … More

Now available! Order today: You can also find out more information about the book, including an interview with me, at … More

The wonderful Cleaver Magazine has just come out with a new issue, and what do you know? I’m in it! … More

You’ve likely heard that Amtrak has created a writers residency on the rails, and it is reviewing applications through the … More

For a piece on my Kenya trip last year that just appeared in Friends Journal, click HERE.

Here’s an article I wrote about my recent visit to Kenya and Friends Theological College for the summer 2012 issue … More

Click below to see a short piece I wrote recently for Pendle Hill Quaker Center that describes my writing sojourns … More

Down to the Galagoli River (then up to the Hill of Vision) What a relief it was to start feeling … More

Chepsonoi, Kenya I learn extraordinary news (and I don’t mean about the rat) Ruth arrived early morning again with a … More