"To me the world of poetry is a house with thousands of glittering windows. Our words and images, land to land, era to era, shed light on one another. Our words dissolve the shadows we imagine fall between." ~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Stephanie Vandrick grew up in Canada, India, and Michigan. She has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life; she teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of four academic books and numerous journal articles. Her most recent book is "Growing Up with God and Empire: A Postcolonial Analysis of 'Missionary Kid' Memoirs" (Multilingual Matters, 2019). She is married and has an adult daughter and two wonderful grandchildren. She has been an avid reader since childhood. In this blog she writes about what she has read recently, her favorite books and authors, bookstores, libraries, her experiences related to reading, and other reading-related topics. You are invited to sign up as "followers," to comment on posts, and/or you can email her at vandricks@usfca.edu; she would like to hear from you.
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