SF Writers’ Grotto Open House

Please join us Thursday, September 16, at 7 p.m. for the 2010 San Francisco Writers' Grotto Open House! The Writers' Grotto is opening its doors after hours for food, wine, mingling, and a showing of who's here and what we're up ...

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 · Books, Misc. · No Comments »

Hear Me Read Sept. 9

I'm reading September 9 in Sausalito's great Why There Are Words series with the awesome Katie Crouch, Elaine Beale, Junse Kim, Elizabeth Rosner, and KM Weaver. I'll be reading from the new novel. Come on out!

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 · Books, Misc. · No Comments »

Hello!

Greetings! You’ve landed on the website of writer Rachel Howard. I’m an author, journalist, dance critic, and writing teacher. However, I’m not a web designer (hence the circa 2005 site design—the pink is getting a little old). ...

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 · Books, Dance, Misc., Personal, The Lost Night · No Comments »

Summer and Beyond

Hello friends, this week I'm off to Asheville, NC, where I'll be attending my final residency as a student at Warren Wilson College's wonderful writing program, and graduating with my MFA in fiction on July 12. The graduation marks ...

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 · Dance, Misc., Personal · No Comments »

Creative Language

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 · Misc. · No Comments »

And here's my profile of Mira Shelub, as it appeared in today's Chronicle: "German police murdered Mira Shelub's mother during World War II; Mira, as a youth, lived two years in the Polish forest, fending off cold and lice and typhus ...

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 · Misc. · 1 Comment »

And now for something very different . . . With Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, approaching this weekend, the Chronicle asked me to profile Holocaust survivors. We found two extraordinary Bay Area women to interview through the San ...

Monday, April 9th, 2007 · Misc. · No Comments »

I'm just back from Phoenix, where I led a writing workshop at the Parents of Murdered Children Conference. The conference is a place for those who have lost someone to murder to gather with others who understand how isolating ...

Monday, August 14th, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »

Grotto Works Rocks

The first-ever Grotto Works celebration was hot--literally--thanks to the 300 or so guests who packed our sweltering, surprisingly under-air conditioned offices on a warm Saturday night. Everyone crowded in to the conference room for two rounds of reading--first at ...

Monday, June 26th, 2006 · Misc. · 1 Comment »

When a friend of mine who edits San Francisco State's alumni magazine asked me to interview the Photorealist painter Robert Bechtle, I couldn't resist. By coincidence, I had just seen the mesmerizing Bechtle retrospective at the San Francisco Museum ...

Thursday, June 8th, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »