Apricot Irving
Apricot Anderson Irving is currently based in the woods outside Portland, Oregon, but has lived in Haiti, Indonesia and the UK. Her missionary parents moved to Haiti when she was six years old; she left at the age of fifteen. She returned to Haiti in the spring of 2010 to cover the earthquake for the radio program This American Life. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. The Gospel of Trees, a memoir of her time in Haiti, is her first book.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Climb the Mountains
Apricot Irving
'Harm that comes through the hands of those we love must be wrestled with; it does not simply disappear.'
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Grandson of Jesus Christ
Apricot Irving
‘His heart is a tired engine with too many loose screws and faulty wires, not weightless like the tissue-thin kites he used to fly with his grandfather as the string danced between his fingers.’
