Near the highest moment of conflict in my novel The Risk of Us, a family of three hears, over the radio, that Donald Trump has won the election. The little girl goes to bed wondering why her parents have fallen silent. After she sleeps, the...
Like most of us, I’ve become so conditioned to flitting between the various social media outlets (except Instagram–sorry, I still cannot [do not want to?] figure out Instagram!) that I’ve neglected to share happenings here...
The hour is nearly here. My novel The Risk of Us is coming out next Tuesday, and I’ll be launching a reading tour Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. at Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Avenue, San Francisco in conversation with novelist and...
Dear visitor and friend, The post below is what I wrote the morning after the 2016 Presidential election. Because I believe that Donald Trump should be impeached, I have decided to leave this November 9th, 2016 post as the front-page entry on my...
I’m feeling good about 2014. Perhaps finishing a major revision of your five-years-in-the-making novel four days before January 1st will do that for you. I’ve got the glow of New Year promise. –I’ve hopped on board that Elena Ferrante...
As I was packing our whole apartment to move from North Carolina back to California, I looked at my copies of The Writer’s Notebook and Theory of Prose and I thought, “I’ll need these two books if the NY Times finally decides to...
On New Year’s day here in Swannanoa, North Carolina, my husband Dave and I turned to each other and said in unexpected unison, “Kind of overwhelming.” We meant the taking stock, how much had changed. Never would we have thought, two years ago...
I have a new personal essay published today on the beautiful and intellectually adventurous site Berfrois. The essay is, loosely, about art modeling, lost rings, nakedness, reconciliation to death, and identity. I hope you might enjoy. You can...
Hello! You’ve landed on the website of author, critic, and teacher Rachel Howard. I’m currently working on interconnected short stories about models and artists, revising a novel, and serving as the 2011-2012 Joan Beebe Teaching...
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). I’m also not much...
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...
My brother is home safe from Iraq and done with the Army. Now if only we could all be done with George Bush.
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