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Re-defining Drag Transformation: An Interview with Maxi Glamour
by Robin Gow

January 13, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity Robin Gow: It’s so nice to get to chat with you! I’m really grateful for this opportunity to delve into your work. I guess I want to start by asking where your drag name “Maxi Glamour” came from? Maxi Glamour: I created it when I […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Interviews Posted On: January 13, 2021

Interview with Artist and Author Kristen Drozdowski
by Aya Kusch

December 25, 2020 Contributed By: Aya Kusch

Kristen Drozdowski is the powerhouse designer and artist behind Worthwhile Paper, a brand of stationary that includes greeting cards, art prints, decks, and notebooks. She is also the author of the guided journal, You Are the Magic You Seek: A Journal for Looking Within, which inspires self-reflection through handwritten prompts and affirmations, and features vibrant […]

Filed Under: Art, Featured Content, Interviews Posted On: December 25, 2020

Interview with Novelist Miriam McNamara
by Raki Kopernik

November 23, 2020 Contributed By: Raki Kopernik

Miriam McNamara was born in Ireland, raised in the Southern United States, and now lives in the Midwest. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of two queer young adult historical novels. Her debut, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, was released in 2018 by Sky Pony […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Interviews Posted On: November 23, 2020

Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Hanif Abdurraqib, Ruth Awad

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full-length poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: July 1, 2018

Interview with Flash Forward host and producer Rose Eveleth
by Sarah Augusta

June 3, 2018 Contributed By: Rose Eveleth, Sarah Augusta

Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer, writer, and animator. Currently, Rose is the producer and host of Flash Forward, a podcast about the future. Mixing radio drama and science journalism, Flash Forward is a smart and often funny exploration of the potentially sticky consequences of a future scenario, “everything from the existence of artificial wombs, […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: June 3, 2018

Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout: Invisible on Paper

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Juan Gelacio, Robert Joe Stout

An estimated six-and-a-half million Mexican-born citizens live and work in the United States without legal authorization. Many have children who were born in the United States and consequently are citizens although their parents are not. Employment statistics reveal that undocumented Mexican male immigrants have a higher percentage of fulltime employment than any other ethnic or […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: January 1, 2018

Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen: Power & Light

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: David Bowen, Eric Shonkwiler

Eric Shonkwiler is the author of two novels and a collection of stories and novellas. The stories in his collection, Moon Up, Past Full (Alternating Current Press, 2015), won a series of honors, including the Luminaire Award for Best Prose, shortlists for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Small Fictions Prize and the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: January 1, 2018

Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott: Freshness, Craft, and Time

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Okla Elliott

Okla Elliott: In the title story of your collection Swarm to Glory, a Jewish girl is placed in a Christian foster home, and the theme of religious affiliation and stereotypes emerge several times. What caused you to choose the situation of foster care as the backdrop for investigating Christian/Jewish relations and stereotypes? Garnett Kilberg Cohen: That story began […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: July 1, 2015

Jennifer Spiegel interviewed by David Abrams: Adult Anxiety

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: David Abrams, Jennifer Spiegel

Sybil Weatherfield is a 30-year-old hot mess.  A temp worker in New York City flitting from job to job, Sybil is the riveting main character of Jennifer Spiegel’s debut novel Love Slave (Unbridled Books). She has a boyfriend and is in love with another guy (the lead singer in the band Glass Half Empty), has issues with […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: October 1, 2013

R. Clifton Spargo interviewed by Okla Elliott: The Lost Chapter

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Okla Elliott, R. Clifton Spargo

Okla Elliott: You chose the end of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship as the focus of your novel. What drew you to that particular portion of their lives? And, more broadly speaking, what drew you to that particular literary couple as opposed to, say, Vivian and T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, etc.? R. […]

Filed Under: Interviews Posted On: October 1, 2013

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