Author Archives: IlieRubyAuthor

A wise and supportive friend mailed me a “mixed tape” featuring this song a few months ago — he thought it captured the essence of The Salt God’s Daughter. I have to agree.  Literature and music go together. Source: youtube.com … Continue reading →

Some stories never leave you, no matter how hard you try to ignore them or how many years go by. They have a voice that is already perceptible. Their cadence and shape are like footprints in the snow on a … Continue reading →

Years ago, while working as an editor at a publishing house, I came to see that writers are a strange breed of human, the sort that will cross miles of dry desert for one reader that understands their book. This is because for writers, every word, every page, is proof of the heart. Much like the wild geese in Mary Oliver’s famed poem, words on the page announce “your place in the family of things”. Continue reading →

To all the girls who ran wild at 17, Who let their hair grow long and flung it boldly in the rain, who dyed their hair, who snuck out of windows and stayed out too late, who drank and smoked … Continue reading →