Anna Amiradaki

Having lived outside the Boston area for more than fifteen years hasn't come without a sharp adjustment to the fast, efficient, and sometimes frenetic rhythm of life. Coming from a laid-back Mediterranean culture — where arriving fifteen minutes late to a dinner party planned impromptu that same afternoon is actually showing up early and finding your host still at the stove, where birthday parties have no end time and a coffee meet-up lasts two hours by default — the Northeast's relationship...

In 2020, Linda Rhynard fell and shattered her left hand, wrist, and elbow. Months of surgeries and physical therapy followed. In the still quiet moments at night, instead of mourning what she'd lost, she made a decision: Every August 19th—the anniversary of her injury—she would learn something new, reactivate the creative part of herself that corporate life had required her to set aside. She volunteered at a local museum recreating 1790s farm life. She learned to spin. Then, on a weaving...

For six years, Chris Watson, has met with a writing group every Sunday morning. A quarter million words later, there's a mystery novel agents are trying to sell, children's books in progress, and stories about families lost and found. "If I didn't write I don't know what I would do." We talk Shakespeare, coal-fired pizza with Agatha Christie, and why writers in 2026 can't be scared to write down the truth. Writers in Our Backyard — coming in the spring issue of Khiton Free Press.