Connecting military spouses in the arts with each other and their communities
Military Spouse Fine Artists Network (MilspoFAN) is empowering military spouses in the fine arts - including dance, visual arts, fiction, theater, poetry, multimedia art, and more - to promote their work, tell their stories, and grow their artistic networks. The MilspoFAN blog started in 2016 and is run by a group of dedicated volunteers.
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An Interview with Abby Murray
No one in my family seemed interested in poetry, which gave me the space to find it. Once I felt how powerful and playful it was, not to mention portable and affordable (it requires virtually no instrument, fees, playing field or equipment), I was hooked, so that freedom to explore independently was crucial. Poetry is subversive and funny and mysterious and brave and scary and weird and authentic and perfect for a broke-ass kid from rural America. I love it. I’m not so insistent anymore on it being “mine” but I think that’s what allowed me to find it at first.
An Interview with Cassie & Patrick Garber
Cassie & Patrick Garber are partners in their life and their creative work. As an active military family, they share their love of reading and their pups in their latest book, The Littlest Hound.
Failing Forward with S. C. I. E. N. C. E by Siera London, USA Today Bestselling Author
Set yourself up for success with S. C. I. E. N. C. E., a group of principles identified by Dr. Sean Young, a behavioral psychologist, to help you stick with the behaviors that power lasting change through engrained processes.
Healing from a Military Divorce through Writing
When we were younger we used to joke about the military divorce statistics – after nine years of marriage, we became one of them … Now my short story collection, Homefront, is about to be published by the University of Nevada Press, and it’s bringing back a lot of memories about those military years.
An Interview with Kimberlee Bethany Bonura, Ph.D., MFA, E-RYT, CYT
Writer and military spouse Kimberlee Bethany Bonura, Ph.D., MFA, E-RYT, CYT, knew at a young age that she was meant to write. She also learned from her mother that achieving goals in adulthood often requires going against the odds. We, too, can create and thrive in "the shadows of military service," with a whole heck of a lot of determination.
Catching up with Jehanne Dubrow
Well, a lot has happened since MilspoFAN interviewed me two years ago. I’ve had two new books come out: American Samizdat (Diode, 2019), a collection of poetry about our current political moment, and through smoke (New Rivers Press, 2019), a book-length essay about how I came to fall in love with perfume. I also have another collection of poems, Simple Machines, which won the Richard Wilbur Poetry Award and will be published this year by the University of Evansville Press.
An Interview with Jehanne Dubrow
My dear MilspoFANs, our Artist Interview this month is with Jehanne Dubrow, an award-winning poet, an academic, and a Navy spouse.
