Osasere Ewansiha: How was the writing process of Dancing Between the Raindrops different from your novel, The Talking Drum, or other works? Lisa Braxton: I wasn’t working on a full narrative. I was not attempting to write like I did in fiction, (like my novel) a story...
Rey M. Rodríguez An Interview with Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso was born to Mexican immigrants in the Ysleta neighborhood of El Paso, Texas. The family lived in a colonia near the border in a house that Troncoso's parents built, without electricity or running water...
Osasere Edo-Ewansiha Jeneé Skinner has a degree in Creative Writing and went abroad to the University of Oxford to study Renaissance Literature and the Italian Renaissance. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Roxanne Gay’s The Audacity, and...
Jennifer Maritza McCauley When I was a college kid at the University of Pittsburgh, joy-eyed and largely a loner, I came across the album Full Circle by the hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics (which includes all of the members of Souls of Mischief, the group behind the...
Mathew Weitman in Conversation with Red Pine Bill Porter assumes the pen name Red Pine for his translation work. He was born in Los Angeles in 1943, grew up in the Idaho Panhandle, served a tour of duty in the US Army, graduated from the University of California with...
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...
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...
Joshua Cobb--a senior at the University of Central Missouri, editorial intern for Pleiades, and a social media intern for UCM’S student literary journal Arcade--interviews Esther Lin, whose poems "When I.C.E. Came for Me" and "Illegal Immigration" appear in the Summer...
Janola Sauther, an undergraduate student in the English program at the University of Central Missouri, interviews Sean Gill, winner of Pleiades' G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction for his story “The Statement of [Redacted], Revised,” which appears in the Summer...