From the Boston Globe:
“L’ASILE, Haiti — His small white rental car rumbled through mostly barren mountains, passing by guardrails made of cactuses and plowing through a shallow river before arriving, two hours in, at a small house with mud walls and a tin roof, tucked among towering coconut trees.
All of it was new to Nathan Eckstrom, who teaches English in the Boston schools, and that was exactly the point…”
From the Bay State Banner:
“The school year was just days away, and Genet Mehari had poured much of her summer into preparation. As she put some final touches on her classroom, she looked forward to her third year teaching kindergarten through second grade science at Curley K-8…”
From the Boston Globe again:
“The life of a short story writer can be lonely and discouraging. Success, if it comes at all, arrives in modest increments: You’re published in a literary journal. You get to do a reading. Jennifer De Leon knows the reality as well as anyone. A schoolteacher in Boston and veteran of innumerable writing classes, workshops, and rejection letters, she considers it a mark of her resilience that she’s been turned down for a Fulbright grant — twice…”