Interview: Maud Newton, Author of Ancestor Trouble
"I have really come to believe that ignoring toxic histories is toxic for the individual person."
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Epiphanic Collaborations: A Conversation with Sandra Simonds and Summer J. Hart
Poet Sandra Simonds and interdisciplinary artist Summer J. Hart talk with Alina Stefanescu about their collaborative chapbook 11 Triptychs.
Interview: Sequoia Nagamatsu, Author of How High We Go in the Dark
Margaret LaFleur interviews author Sequoia Nagamatsu on his bestselling novel How High We Go in the Dark.
Interview: Bethany Ball, Author of The Pessimists
I wanted to write a book that sort of said, “We are all messing up. None of us know what we are doing. Even the people who act like they know—they don't know.”
Interview: Ethel Rohan, Author of In The Event of Contact
"In a brutal-beautiful world, you bear witness, care down to your nerve endings, corral the light, and ease the dark. You also fail and f*ck up, again and again. It’s okay. It’s all par for the arena."
The Short Story is Alive and Well in Africa: A Conversation Between E.C. Osondu and Kasimma
"Memory is such an interesting thing. It is the only thing we bring along with us when we are stripped of all we have. Interestingly, memory is also a malleable thing."
Author Q&A: Mary Miller (Biloxi)
"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."
Author Q&A: David Leo Rice (Drifter)
"I think if more adults were in touch with their internal worlds, and proud of this fact, there’d be much less conflict in the external world."
Interview: Alix Ohlin, Author of We Want What We Want
"I marvel at the accomplishments of other writers and feel called to write back in response, which is the whole reason I started writing in the first place. That’s the most helpful thing, and the most constant."
Interview: David Coogan (Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail)
"That’s why prisoners are able to write, despite the oppression, the depravation, the discrimination. They’re able to write because they can imagine community."