“I want both: marriage and lovers, freedom and security. I want my husband to say yes to this.”
A daughter shares her father's first responder story about searching for bodies at Ground Zero.
A writer accompanies her grandmother on a journey through sites of Holocaust remembrance.
On the physical and emotional shocks of truly inhabiting our bodies.
Negotiating our diversity in a world that so often defaults to skin color.
An Immigrant father-to-be ponders what homeland means to him, and what it might mean to his daughter.
Uncovering the story of a grandmother's racial passing and its effect on following generations.
On Music: A song is the complete acceptance of impermanence. It would not begin if it could not end.
When my father became my mother, gender reassignment in Appalachia.
A mother reflects on her grief during her son’s illness, and on her enduring love of reading.
A writer reflects on childhood memories of her neighborhood hotdog vendor.
How a digital media company is challenging stereotypes about the growing landscape of marijuana culture.
A journalist confronts her feeling of helplessness in watching a war from afar.
When Hong Kong used to be home
"But where are you really from?" they ask, and I never know who to answer for, Thomas or Nuocheng?
The first installment of the series features a fairy tale come to life, if only for a moment.
Alone, un-housed, we moved with the current, the future suspended like the long lines of a spider’s silk flung loose on the air.
In search of the mother who gave her up for adoption, the author finds six siblings instead. Decades later, she contemplates the drug addiction that cost many of them their lives.
A family whose heritage spans borders, but separate experiences continues to divide them in their own home.
A mother reflects on fears and stark statistics, following another school shooting.
For a sign language interpreter at a murder trial, the crowning achievement is utter neutrality.
The winning entry of the 2015 Center for Women Writers Prize in Creative Nonfiction