Novelist Patrick deWitt feels like an anomaly. At a time when writers are expected to maintain a constant public presence, to explain their work, promote themselves, and remain perpetually available, the relative lack of access to one of our most celebrated writers...
Kristen Millares Young went looking for God and found a woman, found a goddess, found herself. She went looking for new stories about girlhood, motherhood, womanhood and found an origin story, her own but also that very first story of that very first woman. No, a...
I first met Mansi Dahal in a graduate class dedicated to writing the body. It was a fitting introduction — while our work varies in topic, theme, and form, we share a habit of writing about sensory intimacies, small tactile details that reverberate across the psyche....
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...