Sara Ryan

How are y’all? I’ve been having very quiet and lovely ambiguous winter holidays, hope you have too if you celebrate same. Some of the things I’ve been doing: Writing. (Duh, on a certain level, but I do like to include it on the list in case of doubt.) Cooking (by which I mean reheating) a [...]

You may know Colleen Mondor from her blog, Chasing Ray, or her insightful reviews for Bookslut, Booklist, and Eclectica Magazine. Her first book, Map of My Dead Pilots, is a gripping, unflinching look at what it’s like to fly for a living in Alaska, where pilots are rewarded for — and sometimes simply expected to [...]

I recently unearthed this poem that I wrote when I was a teenager. I do not now recall the precise circumstances that inspired it, but now I am sharing it with the Internet. You’re welcome. WORD TO THE WISE, or Little Tiny Violins — DENIED! I’m not sure where I should begin Except to say [...]

I’m a sucker for journalism about teens’ lives; whether it’s photo essays like Adrienne Salinger’s In My Room: teenagers in their bedrooms, interviews like Sydney Lewis’s A Totally Alien Life Form: Teenagers, or books like Brooke Hauser’s, which tell teens’ stories in the context of an institution that’s shaping their lives — in this case, [...]

One characteristic I share with my characters Nic and Battle is the nervous and disgusting habit of tearing grimly at my hands. I bite my nails and cuticles, peel strips of skin, and act like my job is to create as many open wounds as possible on each digit. There’s a corollary to this habit, [...]