by Athena Kildegaard
“I really want justice for my characters, many of whom are children, and I want their travails in their world to be acknowledged.” Continue reading
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Not Fearless But Brave: Q&A with Sharon Solwitz
by Evelyn Somers
“I feared the possibility that my potential . . . was a joke or a ruse, or it had vanished somewhere in the wilds of India or acid trips or too much Diet Coke.” Continue reading
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Interviews / Nonfiction / Poetry
A Lonely, Glorious Art: Q & A with Meena Alexander
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
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Interviews / Poetry
Hybridity, Compression, Shimmer: Q & A With Peg Alford Pursell
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
Begin With Curiosity: Q & A with Lynn Sloan
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
The Pivot Point at Which Life Becomes Completely Different: Q & A with Steve Kistulentz
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
Freedom Seen Another Way: Q&A with Rosalie Morales Kearns
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
