Kaya Oakes is the author of Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture (Henry Holt, 2009), and a poetry collection, Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007). She was the co-founder and editor of Kitchen Sink Magazine from 2002 to 2007 and is also a freelance journalist.

July 27th, 2009 A Radical Leaps An indie writer drops her ironic distance and finds her faith On a chilly April night, I'm standing on the stone altar of my childhood church, forehead dripping with chrism, when the guy next to me ...