From The Seahawk: “The After” by Michael Ramos is a valiant portrayal of holding the tension between two extremes until a third way emerges. This book is a collection of personal essays on how to find your place in this world after your place tells you you’re no longer relevant.

From The Seahawk: Jason Mott is no stranger to hard work. He supported himself through earning his BFA in Fiction and MFA in Poetry by UNCW by working at Bed Bath & Beyond and Walmart, and after went on to work at Verizon answering phones while continuing to write. His dedication did not go unnoticed, as on January 24, The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship awarded Jason Mott $25,000.

From Cape Fear Living: After high school, Dan Beck worked a series of jobs that included a ranch hand in Arizona, construction on the beachfront of Florida, refinishing furniture in Louisiana and four years in the infantry. Throughout his jobs and in between, he would fill journals and sketchbooks with drawings.

From Flair Magazine: “Bratz were the cool-girl dolls—the dolls for the girls who watched Keeping up with the Kardashians from the first season, the movie Thirteen, shopped at Limited Too and Justice, whose mothers took them bra shopping and maybe bought them a thong.”

From Flair Magazine: “Common in most homes of prepubescent girls in the mid-aughts was a copy of American Girl Doll’s The Care and Keeping of You by Valorie Lee Schaefer. The Book (as I will be referring to it from here on out) was like a secret club. I remember being nine years old when my friend, Lily, came over with her copy.”

Forthcoming from Hobart.