Language, Desire, & Navigating Different Worlds: Esperanza Hope Snyder in Conversation with Ruben Quesada

May 23, 2023

Language, Desire, & Navigating Different Worlds: Esperanza Hope Snyder in Conversation with Ruben Quesada Esperanza Hope Snyder is the author of Esperanza and Hope and co-translator, with Nancy Naomi Carlson, of Wendy Guerra’s poetry collection, Delicates. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships at the Gettysburg Review, the Kenyon Review, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Latinx ...

Seeking Memory: An Interview with Oindrila Mukherjee

May 02, 2023

Seeking Memory: An Interview with Oindrila Mukherjee Oindrila Mukherjee grew up in India and now lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University. She has been the recipient of fellowships from Inprint Houston, Emory University and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in Salon, Kenyon Review Online, The Colorado ...

FEATURED STORY: “THREE SISTERS” BY GEMINI WAHHAJ

April 19, 2023

Three Sisters            When I was a child, Kanta Apa was always turning down marriage proposals. She was my mother’s eldest sister Boro Khala’s daughter, the eldest among my cousins. Boro Khala had three daughters– Kanta, Shanta, and Renu. They lived in a large house in Dhanmondi. Scarlet bougainvillea draped the metal gate and plastered white walls at ...

The Power of “What the Hell?”: An Interview with Nicky Beer

February 02, 2023

Nicky Beer in Conversation with Day'Shawna Courtney Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon, 2015), were both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the ...