American Writers Museum, Author at The American Writers Museum

For me, writing was an act of survival because it got me through all those [...]

15
Jan

It wasn’t until much later that I recognized why, and when I did, I embraced [...]

14
Jan

"I believe to be American there is a passion for wanting to expand the definition [...]

09
Jan

Susan Muaddi Darraj is a Palestinian-American writer who has won multiple awards for her short [...]

07
Jan

It might be tough to believe, but a new year is upon us and with [...]

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30
Dec

"My writing emerges from that borderland between many languages. Bengali, Italian, English. I draw on [...]

18
Dec

All the books featured in My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today. We present our [...]

14
Dec

"I only belong in places I create. And that has been, I think, the most [...]

11
Dec

Historian Dominic A. Pacyga grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working [...]

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07
Dec

I became a writer because I grew up with storytellers, oral storytellers. Some of them [...]

04
Dec