My Accused Witch Ancestor Was Also an Enslaver
When an ancestor who was persecuted also persecuted others–in even more devastating ways.
When an ancestor who was persecuted also persecuted others–in even more devastating ways.
Washington Post reporter Sophia Nguyen predicts Obama’s summer 2023 books will include Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton
My summer editorial offerings focus on my greatest strength and interest: working with fellow writers who are reckoning with their own troubled family histories.
For the New York Times Book Review, I had the honor of reviewing Leah Myers’ slender and poetic Thinning Blood, a finely crafted totem pole of a first book.
I’m offering a new stand-alone online class: Family History With Imagination. This class overlaps a little with part of the Writing About Ancestor Trouble course I offered, but is structured to allow more people to join, and will focus on cultivating imagination around tough family histories and how to draw on creativity transparently in nonfiction while prioritizing fact and being clear about how the two intersect.