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A Palestinian Daughter’s Search for Connection with Her Father, Her Past, and Her Homeland

A Palestinian Daughter’s Search for Connection with Her Father, Her Past, and Her Homeland

“I am homesick, whatever home means.”

By Mai Serhan | October 17, 2025

Biography of a Biographer: Searching For My Father on Mark Twain’s Farm

Biography of a Biographer: Searching For My Father on Mark Twain’s Farm

“He could not imagine then that I would write in order to find him.”

By Hester Kaplan | October 16, 2025

Living in the Shadow of Your Father’s Iconic Song

Living in the Shadow of Your Father’s Iconic Song

Sarah Curtis: “Maybe we’ve just learned what my teenage daughter does not yet fully know: that to be held to a law is often to be loved.”

By Sarah Curtis | October 9, 2025

With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke

With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke

Darcy Ballantyne on the Long Process of Getting to Know an Enigmatic Father

By Darcy Ballantyne | July 16, 2025

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Margot Singer: “That book... was not the book my father wanted. But it was the only one that I could write. It spoke the only truth I knew.”

By Margot Singer | July 9, 2025

Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together

Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together

“Is this my family’s thing? The need to pin memories down, preserve them in a drawer, put a frame around them?”

By Michele Filgate | May 8, 2025

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When Love Means Letting Go: Jiordan Castle on Navigating a Tumultuous Relationship With Her Father

By Jiordan Castle | May 6, 2025

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

By Emily J. Smith | February 19, 2025

Crumple Zone: What Car Crashes Reveal About Human Hubris and Fragility

By Sara Mitchell | January 3, 2025

Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country

Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country

Christina Vo on Writing an Intergenerational Tale of a Divided Land

By Christina Vo | April 22, 2024

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

Kristine S. Ervin: “I need to be that daughter again, who can cry into the chest of my father.”

By Kristine S. Ervin | March 27, 2024

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

"I write because I want to continue my father, not contain him."

By Sheila Squillante | November 29, 2023

Forty-Nine Days of Mourning: On Culture and Ritual at My Father’s Funeral

Forty-Nine Days of Mourning: On Culture and Ritual at My Father’s Funeral

E.M. Tran Considers Disappearance and Preservation in Grief and Writing

By E.M. Tran | October 12, 2022

On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father

On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father

Rachel M. Harper: “I was a fellow worshipper, a member of the tribe; his daughter.”

By Rachel M. Harper | May 16, 2022

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

Merissa Nathan Gerson’s Notes on Grief

By Merissa Nathan Gerson | August 23, 2021

Lessons of Staying Put from a Southern Childhood

Lessons of Staying Put from a Southern Childhood

Allison Moorer on Growing Up With Her Sister in Alabama

By Allison Moorer | October 31, 2019

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