by Shoba Viswanathan
“Poetry is such a lonely art; that is also its glory. You get to listen to the voices in your head, which in a mysterious way connect you to the shared earth and your own body.” Continue reading
by Sonya Chung
“When I said to my students that we’re all in this together, it was true . . . I needed to show them it’s never too late and to persevere is essential (with publishing) but more than anything else, to honor one’s creative side is the most important thing.” Continue reading
by Jan English Leary
“I turned to fiction writing because I wanted to dive beneath what we can see, to delve into what drives us, our feelings, our yearnings and desires, our fears and our revulsions, the whole thicket of our emotions.” Continue reading
by Ericka Taylor
“I wanted to try a construction where you could see both before- and after-images of characters as they exist outside the main events of the novel.” Continue reading
by Shoba Viswanathan
“As for the relationship between faith and feminist activism in the real world . . . there’s such a troubled history of institutional religions supporting the powerful against the powerless . . . That legacy will have to be reckoned with.” Continue reading
by Evelyn Somers
“I’ve compared the short-story to a garbage can with a rat inside; you can hear the rat hit the can again and again, and then at the end he lifts the lid off the can and breaks free.” Continue reading
by Sonya Chung
I wanted to invent a specific, believable family, throw a naïf into their mix, and see what could happen. I love Alice Munro, [her stories] feel so lived that it’s as if the woman has had a hundred different lives. I wanted to try to create something that could approach that level of credibility. Continue reading
