In her latest novel, “My Nemesis,” the American author Charmaine Craig explores the murky terrain of memoir by chronicling the fictional relationship between two women writers. Tessa ...

For fans of Siri Hustvedt and Claire Messud, Charmaine Craig’s third novel, “My Nemesis,” is the spiky little feminist page-turner you’ve been waiting for. Spiky little feminist page-turner?

Craig, a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, recently sat down for an interview in the backyard of her Craftsman home in West Adams. Author Charmaine Craig. Photo by Roy Zipstein Jewish ...

When bestselling novelist Charmaine Craig tells me this ... a powerful intellect to match. The author of two acclaimed novels, The Good Men (2002) and Miss Burma (2017), she supplements her ...

Charmaine Craig draws on family history in her novel ... the country’s majority ethnic group (“They took our alphabet and holy books”), and saw her father disemboweled by Burmese bandits ...

The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy, by Charmaine Craig (Riverhead, $14). The "Good Men" of the title are Cathars, members of a medieval French religious sect considered heretical by the Catholic Church.

Meet Charmaine Craig, a faculty member in the Department ... 6 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway, suite 105. 949-494-4779 or lagunabeachbooks.com Poet, fiction ...