Author: Sierra Skye Gemma

How Abigail Thomas Creates Narrative Tension

Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
A guest craft essay by Paul Zakrzewski on narrative drive in the segmented memoir: Recently, I found myself re-reading Abigail Thomas’s Safekeeping, a fabulous memoir-in-fragments about marriage and motherhood. And once again, I’m struck by a contradiction at the heart of the book: How does…

Alphabet Soup Interview

Hey Everybody, It’s been a long and wild and weird summer, but I wanted to finally post my first radio interview for your listening “pleasure.” Laura Trethewey and Matthew Walsh interviewed me on CiTR 101.9 FM‘s Alphabet Soup radio show on June 11, 2014. I felt like the interview went

Sierra Skye Gemma Falls in Love with Banff

Originally posted on Swoon:
Back in June, I was thrilled to announce that Sierra Skye Gemma is the new core member of the Swoon team, and I boasted about the amount of expertise that she is bringing to our community of love, sex, and chocolate. Sierra recently made connections in…

Introducing Sierra Skye Gemma as Swoon’s new co-curator and lover of literature!

Originally posted on Swoon:
Sierra Skye Gemma joins Ruth Daniell to create the new core team for Swoon: A Reading Series on Love & Desire! The amazing and talented two-time novelist Jeffrey Ricker, co-host for Swoon: Spring 2014, has had to return to his life and love in St. Louis, Missouri,…

Make me Swoon!

I’m excited to announce that I will be reading at an upcoming event called Swoon: A Reading Series on Love & Desire. The event will be held on April 4th at Cocoa Nymph, 3739 West 10th Avenue in Vancouver, and hosted by the dashing novelist Jeffrey Ricker and the lovely poet Ruth Daniell! If that

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