Carol Barkwell, the founding Executive Director of Luke’s Place, is retiring at the end of the week. To say she will be sorely missed would be a significant understatement. Under her visionary and ever-patient leadership, Luke’s Place has grown from Continue reading Happy retirement, Carol!→

When I heard that my book had been shortlisted for the Donner Award, I figured it was a long shot. Up against four books written by academics and published by scholarly presses, my book was clearly a case of “one Continue reading Not this time→

Several weeks ago, my publisher sent me an email that began with the sentence “I have some exciting news.” Indeed, she did  — the Montreal feminist publisher les editions du remu-menage wanted to translate my book into French and publish Continue reading Who would have thought?→