by Alice Stephens
“While yoga is a moving meditation, I find writing to be a seated one. They both take me out of the clutter of life and into a world where my mind moves at its own pace.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Interviews
Authors / Features / Interviews / Nonfiction
Cracking Open the Self: an Interview with Lisa Knopp
by Evelyn Somers
Lisa Knopp has been practicing and studying the craft of nonfiction writing since before she knew what an essay was. Knopp’s journey as a writer and teacher has paralleled the emergence of creative nonfiction as an abundant and prospering “fourth genre.” Continue reading
“It is always funny to me when I show up to readings and people expect me to be my characters”: Q&A with Carrianne Leung
by Terry Hong
“I think of an image, an event, a line, and I just go from there. I never have outlines. I never know where it’s going to go. The story reveals itself to me little by little.” Continue reading
Authors / Debut Authors / Features / Fiction / Interviews / Uncategorized
Paul Matthew Maisano’s Bindi: On Confronting Our Siblings’ Bad Choices
By Joe Schuster
“I have come to see that satire and cynicism are defenses against harder-to-cope-with emotions.” Continue reading
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Interviews / Poetry / Translations
A State of Dreaming: Q&A with Jasmin Darznik
by Shoba Viswanathan
” Much of the time it has to do with getting out of my own way. Somehow you have to be fiendishly devoted to your work yet untroubled by how it will be received, or whether it will be received at all.”
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Features / Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction / Poetry / Translations
You Will Find Me Upriver: Dissent and Translation–Q&A with Cristina Rivera Garza
by Maddie King
“Instead of thinking of translation as a smooth transition or a harmonious process, I am interested in how translation brings up dissent, discordance, deviation, contention.” Continue reading
Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction / Poetry
Tarot, Astrology & Storytelling: A Conversation with Chaya Babu & Swati Khurana
by Jen Lue
“I’m interested in the idea of who gets to be well and whose way of existing and perceiving gets to be labeled as ‘well’ . . . As a woman of color you grow up experiencing things at the same that you’re being told, ‘This isn’t happening to you.'” Continue reading
