Mary Woodbury

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020

Wild Authors: Helon Habila

This month we travel to the Niger Delta, and I am thrilled to talk with Helon Habila, the mind behind

Wild Authors: Wu Ming-Yi’

I recently re-read Wu Ming-Yi’s The Man with Compound Eyes (Goodreads), which takes place in Taiwan, and was thrilled to connect

Wild Authors: Nancy Burke

Thanks to Nancy Burke, author of Undergrowth (Gibson House Press 2017), we travel to 1960s Brazil to explore the historical problem that continues

Wild Authors: Loranne Vella

Today, we travel to Malta with Loranne Vella to discuss her award-winning novel Rokit (Merlin Publishers, 2017). It’s 2064, and the

Wild Authors: Rick Hodges

For this post, we travel back to the continent of Africa, this time with author Rick Hodges; we talk about

Wild Authors: Deon Meyer

For this post, we travel to South Africa to explore the beautiful country and environmental themes found within Deon Meyer’s crime

Tiny Coronavirus Stories: ‘Fears and tears eclipsed by good deeds’

Nova Scotia winds wildly shake the new house where I’m self-isolating. I wonder when or if my husband can get here from 4,000 kilometers away. Six days seeing no one. Alone here in the unfamiliar. The wind, the dead roses, the blue jays, the crows, the seagulls, and the old gardens in the vast yard call me out. Old stone birdbath statues watch me as I walk by. It is not the old world. The landscape is new, the fears and tears eclipsed by good deeds. We can do this if we live, I think. — Mary Woodbury (Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia)