“These are wonderful stories for all ages—coming or going.”

--Lily Tuck,
   author of News from Paraguay,
   National Book Award Winner

“These beautifully crafted and moving stories speak volumes to my students year after year—they see their own lives, their dreams, and their immediate concerns in these timely works. Writes of Passage should be a required anthology for all high school students. The stories inside this precious book will get teachers and students thinking, speaking, and feeling.”

--Afonso S. Albergaria, Jr.,
   English teacher, The Young Women's Leadership School
   East Harlem , New York

  “I've been reading The Hudson Review regularly for twenty years, and thought the literary criticism makes me think and the poetry makes me hum, it's really these stories and memoirs I find unforgettable. Readers who pick up Writes of Passion are in for a treat: The best writing they've seen in a long time, and tales they'll remember for years.”

--Susan Balée,
   literary critic

“Here is a book aimed at the very thing I aim to measure: the process of triumph.”

  --Saul Williams,
   slam poet, actor, and author of
   The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip Hop