Online in the Meantime: Melanie Unruh

Close-up of Melanie

This week’s Bad Mouth’s Online in the Meantime reading series featured Plume’s own Melanie Unruh!  If you follow Plume regularly you probably know this: Melanie Unruh is a New Mexico-based writer of YA novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in and is forthcoming from The Boiler, Cutthroat, Sixfold, Post Road, New Ohio Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, and Philadelphia Stories, among others. … Read more

Online In the Meantime: Gila Green

Author Gila Green

Rebecca Aronson of Bad Mouth writes: Canadian Gila Green is an Israel-based writer and editor and mother of five. She writes from her converted bomb shelter overlooking the Judean Hills and loves transporting her readers in time and space from Ottoman Palestine to Ottawa, Canada to Johannesburg, South Africa. Her novels range from a novel-in-stories to adult … Read more

Online in the Meantime: JENNIFER JORDÁN SCHALLER

Jennifer Jordan Schaller

Jennifer is a writer and teacher from New Mexico. Her memoir essays have appeared in journals including  Creative Nonfiction and Ascent (this essay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), among others, and a story she worked on appeared on NPR’s This American Life. She is working on her first book, a memoir. Jennifer blogs about her writing process and the elongated, tortoise-like dip … Read more

New Feature: Bad Mouth, Online in the Meantime

We are super excited to announce a new regular column—you may recall just a few short months ago (or was it years ago?) we featured the wonderfully talented Rebecca Aronson (April 2020). She is not only a talented poet but she has been running the coolest literary event in Albuquerque, Bad Mouth, featuring all genre … Read more