gemma D. alexander

While helping my daughter navigate the graphic novel section at the International District Library, the cover of The Bathing Women on a nearby shelf caught...

Arguments about the existence of god bore me. I know my own opinion, and I don’t care about yours. I’m ambivalent about books based on...

I think of myself as having come to the writing profession rather late. But grownups who asked me at eight years old what I wanted...

“Oh, yes, hi, I think we met before.” The attractive Icelandic man was so tall he had to bend down just to shake my hand....

Historically, biographies were the province of Great Men. Only army generals and presidents deserved a biography, and any lesser soul, say a minor aristocrat or...