Kaimana Wolff is the writer I hope I can someday be. Her mastery of the craft has left me in tears and laughter more times than I can count while reading La Chiripa. I am starving, ravenous, for the next instalment — to see Pira’s continuing journey, the battles she…
Fantastical Wolfdog

How to Keep a Human, my first and still most loved book, landed back on my desk with a thump this week. Inside, a handwritten note from the reader who wasn’t. She had tried but found it impossible to focus on what seemed a fantasy, and expressed a dislike for people’s speaking for animals. She might be surprised to know that every one of the five related stories in that book really happened. Notes in the book’s last pages even ask anyone who might have pictures of the high-noon human-and-dogfight in Dawson City to get in touch with me. I… Continue reading