Into the Margins: Talking with Siglio Press
Founder and publisher Lisa Pearson discusses Siglio Press.
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Lisa Mecham
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Cassie Mannes Murray is an MFA candidate at UNCW in Creative Nonfiction where she was awarded the Shannon Morton Fellowship for creative achievement, and designs for Ecotone and Lookout Books. She is lucky to work for Howland Literary to help discover emerging writers, and Raleigh Review where she is the Book Review Editor and Social Media Coordinator. Her work can be found in Passages North, and she has received support from Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Currently, she is working on a lyric essay collection about oddities of the South, particularly pertaining to women and myth, as well as a collection of slipstream stories.
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
"You've got a problem, Mom. I mean, it's a good problem, but it's a problem," said my daughter when she walked into my office the other day and saw the stacks of books I brought back from AWP.
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I once read a quote that to consider adultery in literature is to consider literature itself. These past few weeks, the complexities of romantic relationships kept popping up...
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I have an obsession with post-apocalyptic literature. There's something oddly reassuring about reading far-fetched accounts of the future.
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
My dad loves to cook and he’s a bit of a mushroom fanatic so an online search for a unique holiday book led me here. And while I was there,…
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
You know it’s a small world when you devour a book and you Google the author because you want to profess your undying love for her words and you notice…
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook rested on my parent’s bookshelf alongside The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique and The Edible Woman. As a girl, I liked to peek at the…
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I wouldn’t be much of a book columnist if I didn’t celebrate Alice Munro and her much deserved Nobel Prize for Literature. It surprises me, the number of people who…
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
In David’s Inferno: My Journey Through the Dark Woods of Depression, David Blistein retraces the diagnosis of his complicated depressive disorder and deftly captures the elusive nature of the illness:…
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I recently discovered a fascinating cookbook: Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat. Written in 1911, this cookbook is the first ever written by an African-American chef. Born a slave, Estes…
Lisa’s Book Round-Up
Growing up, I learned to play the piano from a hunchbacked nun at a local, catholic university. After my lesson was over, after she scowled at my clumsy fingers and…