September ended with the release of my latest book, Ofelia and Norma. Yay! But the month also included an art walk, a film festival, and of course book and writing stuff. Our self-directed Spanish con...

Donna Miscolta’s Ofelia and Norma arrives in the world today — a novel about identical twins, bodies, betrayal, trauma and the complicated business of becoming your own person.

In August we had the eclipse. We didn’t get totality in Andalucia, but we were able to view with our special protective glasses the moon’s partial obscuring of the sun. The aligning of celestial bodie...

Donna Miscolta’s bio reveals her range as short story writer, essayist, and novelist. What it doesn’t convey is the guts that it takes for a physically small woman to take on the story of large-bodied...

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When you live in Spain and your book will be published in the United States, there’s a whole ocean of doubt when it comes to whether your book will find its audience. My new novel Ofelia and Norma rel...

The American novelist on leaving Seattle, living as an extranjera in Spain, and why the questions that matter most in fiction are always about belonging. By James Hartley.

June began with a trip to Amsterdam for a European Writers Salon literary meetup that featured a reading, a book crawl, and a canal boat ride with writing prompts. I listened to an eclectic lineup of ...

This month brought the Feria del Libro in Malaga; a visit from my long-time Seattle friend Catalina and a trip together to Granada to meet the director of Ciudad de Literatura Granada; and back in Mál...

Il y a des trajectoires qui racontent bien plus qu’un simple changement de décor et celle de Donna Miscolta est de celles-là. Autrice américaine reconnue, elle a choisi de s’installer à Málaga en 202....

Spring is here, the weather is warmer and the beach beckons, the tourists are filling the streets and restaurants, and the cockroaches are back. Not in our apartment just yet, but in the building entr...

It’s been a particularly literary and bookish month. La Feria de Libros Antiguos had a two-week run on Alameda Principal. Booksellers from various Andalucian cities displayed rare, used, and new books...

by Donna Miscolta Ofelia and Norma Publication date: September 29, 2026 Available for pre-order now. In community college, large-bodied twin sisters Ofelia and Norma struggle for a sense of self. When...

It’s been the month of Carnaval, the month of new connections, and the month that begins the hey-look-at-me prelude to the release of my new book. Let’s start with hey, look at me! My new book, my fou...

I belong to a group of women that meets every couple of weeks to converse mainly in Spanish. Diana, the group’s originator, is the only one that is fully bilingual having been raised in a Spanish-spea...

I’m a name-dropper here in Málaga. A couple of months ago, I tagged along with my friend Fiona to a book discussion group where everyone described a book they’d read recently. The mention of one book ...

It’s a walk in the park, a stride across an empty street, as easy and pure as a toddler pushing a toy stroller. It’s my granddaughter’s unconscious switching between Spanish and English. It’s what I e...

Learning Spanish has always come with an emotional element for me. But I hadn’t cried while learning Spanish until this month. I took the insane step of signing up for a creative writing workshop at t...

Has tenido un aborto. You’ve had an abortion. This observation is from Fernando, my acupuncturist in Málaga, Spain where I live now, where I’ve turned over a new life. Not that my old life was deprave...

September brought another opportunity for travel, starting with Brussels, where in addition to ogling the sites such as the Grand-Place above, I attended the European Writers Salon yearly conference. ...

Residents of the Deep is a gripping yet at times unsettling collection of short fiction that moves fluidly between myth and history. It is in short a collection of surreal short stories, anchored in the history of the Philippines yet unafraid to dip into surrealism. -- Maria Ashford for Bookshelfie READ MORE WOMEN! Book available here.

- - -In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influ...

August in Málaga means Feria, when women don traditional Flamenco dresses and accessorize with flowers, fans, and shawls, when countless bottles of the sweet Cartojal wine are poured, and song and dan...

It’s the end of July and I’m posting this from northern Spain in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where the weather is cool and rainy—a nice change from the high temperatures in Málaga, where I spent af...

Birthday I turned seventy-two this month. It’s weird being an age that seemed light-years away when I was thirty, forty, even fifty. But here I am. Seventy-two years can seem like a long time. It can ...

People come, people go. So goes the line in the movie Grand Hotel. And so goes our lives. In Seattle, where I lived most of my adult years, I established friendships, some close, some casual. I saw so...

The Non-Book Stuff The big event in April was Semana Santa but having witnessed the spectacle up close the two previous years, I was happy to give it and the crowds a pass this time. The only processi...

This month marked two wildly contented years in Málaga. The anniversary passed with barely a nod of observance because we were in the last phases of moving to a new apartment. Though our possessions a...

Sometimes, you just need a bahn mi. One evening, starving after some event—maybe a Spanish class or a meetup with a friend—I popped into a tiny, new café which I had noticed a few days earlier. I addr...