Joy Lanzendorfer’s first novel, Right Back Where We Started From, was published in 2021. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Raritan, the Atlantic, NPR, Ploughshares, Poetry Foundation, and others.
A tale of love, tainted marshmallows, and murder at the Carmel artist colony.
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A former bank in Arcata now serves as a quiet reprieve from today’s complicated world.
It sounds like science fiction, but it may become a useful tool to combat drought and lessen the risk of wildfires.
Lightning and a mysterious fire spark a departure from Maine for the California gold rush in this debut novel.
More than 300 free-flying condors have been reintroduced into areas of the West. Sighting one remains a rare and awe-inspiring event.
Life for the author of The Land of Little Rain was as hard as the inhospitable region she wrote about.
A native daughter returns to California’s onetime cannabis capital and discovers unsettling changes.
