The Fire Pit Incident

The Fire Pit Incident

by | Nov 4, 2015 | Featured

Stunned. Hurt. Then angry. That was the immediate trajectory of my feelings following an incident where a neighbor called me the N word. Anger later turned into resolve to press my stake deeper in the ground of a gentrifying neighborhood and to shine a light on the...
Author Spotlight: Carol Rosenfeld

Author Spotlight: Carol Rosenfeld

by | Oct 28, 2015 | Featured

CAROL ROSENFELD is an accomplished short-fiction writer and poet—though it’s been a while since she participated in a poetry slam. In June 2015, Bywater Books published The One That Got Away, the first novel by this writer described as “a fruit cup in the whole-grain...

Author Spotlight: Baxter Clare Trautman

by | Oct 6, 2015 | Featured

Baxter Clare Trautman earned a master’s degree in biology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and promptly turned her hand to writing. Her thesis, Spirit of the Valley, published by Sierra Club in 2000, was followed by Bleeding Out, the first in the L.A. Franco mystery...
Sandra Moran

Sandra Moran

by | Sep 15, 2015 | About Us, Author Profile, Bywater Authors, Bywater News

Sandra Moran was the author of Letters Never Sent, All We Lack, Nudge, and The Addendum, a companion piece to Nudge. Her novel Letters Never Sent was a 2014 finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and winner of Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS)...

McMan’s Backcast: Women at Work and Play

by | Sep 9, 2015 | Featured

“One of the amazing aspects of the book is the way comedy and pathos work side by side, and how wonderfully author McMan writes about them.”—Amos Lassen Reviewer and existential philosopher, Amos Lassen, offers a pre-release review of Ann McMan’s...