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Interviews
Minnesota Women Writers in Short Fiction:
Underwater Storytelling
an Interview with Kelly Gray and Meredith Johnson
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. The following is an interview with writer and voice talent Kelly Gray, and sound engineer Meredith Johnson, who collectively created an audio experience from Gray’s chapbook, My Fingers are Whales & Other Stories of Cetology, available to listen or download for free through […]
A Conversation with Quan Barry
by Nathan Winer
“There’s a… freedom allowed you in poetry. And I trust that, even if I can’t explain it. It bleeds into my fiction, in many ways.”
An interview with Eric Boyd
by Kirk Sever
“I find a lot of comfort in nihilism.” Eric Boyd on David Bowie, black and white films, and the end of the world.
Stories Refresh the American Language:
An Interview with John Freeman
by Cal Shook
Anthologizing the last fifty years of American short stories, editor John Freeman developed a unique lens for how everything happening in the nation was being reflected in our fiction. After reading and selecting from almost two thousand stories, he created a representative literary collage that is unlike any other anthology of the form. He kindly […]
SPITTING IMAGE: AN INTERVIEW WITH HEATHER C. SWEENEY
by Katherine Fallon
KATHERINE FALLON: I am here today with Heather Sweeney, she/her, who lives in San Diego where she writes, teaches and does visual art. Her chapbooks include Just Let Me Have This from Selcouth Station Press and Same Bitch, Different Era: The Real Housewives Poems from above/ground press. She is also the author of the […]
Articulating the Inarticulable: An Interview with Kayleb Rae Candrilli on their latest collection WATER I WON’T TOUCH
by Robin Gow
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. Robin Gow: One of the lines in the first poem really resonated with my own experience with gender and then understanding the complexities of gender for speakers in the book. You write, “I think I knew I was a boy / when the boy […]
Women Writers in Indie Publishing:
Alissa Hattman Interviewed by Raki Kopernik
To see more works from Alissa Hattman please visit her website: https://www.alissahattman.com/ This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. Raki Kopernik: You have a beautiful new zine chapbook out called, Post, which consists of a collection of postcards written to various people and places. Do you consider it a zine or a chapbook, […]
An Interview with Dramatist Diana Burbano
by Janis Butler Holm
Janis Butler Holm: Diana, you’re known in southern California as a drama professional who has very successfully integrated art and activism. Before we address your personal trajectory as a writer and performer, could you describe your involvement in various social justice projects, past and present? Diana Burbano: I have written for the Protest Plays project […]
On the Freedom and Creativity in Messiness: A Conversation with The Cyborg Jillian Weise
by Josh Christian
Josh Christian: I wanted to start with a broader question to get us into your life and work. I think what struck me about it was that there were so many threads that are happening, and you’re introducing your reader to this whole world of disability that maybe they haven’t even begun to consider, right? […]
