[fiction, instead of lies]

While I was doing Edinburgh with The Tourists today, look what published! A new issue of Hunger Mountain — featuring me totally arguing with Mitali Perkins.

Okay, maybe not arguing. As a matter of fact, our pieces for Flipside are totally NOT a dispute. They’re a discussion. At issue: teens of color on book covers. Should there be more? Should covers be ethnicity neutral? I have an opinion, as does Mitali — please read both sides and join the discussion!

Other “don’t miss” pieces in this issue include Chris Barton’s piece on voice, a lovely Naomi Shihab Nye poem, Ann Teplick’s piece on writing with teens in a psychiatric hospital — oh, just read the whole thing. Seriously. It is that good.

(There’s also an author interview! Art+Life editor Claire Guyton asks me some unusual questions, and I get to use a really unique picture of the top of my niece’s head. Self-portraiture at the age of ten.)

Hunger Mountain is a print and online journal of the arts produced by the Vermont College of Fine Arts. I’m grateful to editor Bethany Hegedus for asking me to play, and to Kekla Magoon for all of her work on this issue as well.