Articles About local author

• ‘A Small Thing to Want’— Cawood explores desire, regret

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 12, 2020

  

  ‘A Small Thing to Want,’ a collection of short stories by author and YS native Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, was published in May.

• Bill Felker’s new book offers riches of home

  By Audrey HackettDecember 21, 2017

  

  Camel crickets in the tub. Robinsong and its absence. A koi pond in winter. Hepatica, violet cress, bloodroot, Virginia bluebells. The “iconography” of light on a wall. Memories of adolescent devotion in a Catholic seminary. All of these subjects illuminate local almanac writer Bill Felker’s new book.

• Writers with deep Yellow Springs roots speak

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 6, 2017

  

  YSHS graduates Shuly Cawood and Denise Jacobs both have newly published books that are similar only in that they each, in individually distinct ways, involve self-discovery.

• Virginia in Ohio

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 30, 2017

  

  A crowd of local students and community members converged on the Yellow Springs library last Wednesday, March 22, for the dedication of a historical marker for renowned author Virginia Hamilton, who grew up and lived most of her life in Yellow Springs.

• Crime author ferrets out her plots

  By Megan BachmanOctober 16, 2014

  

  While Cynthia Pauuwel’s new crime mystery “Forty & Out” is based around a morbid concept, it’s really the story of the female detective out to find the killer while balancing police politics, a clingy almost-ex-husband and a family rift.