Edie Meidav interviews writer-activist Quintan Ana Wikswo for Conjunctions on her novel of text and image, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far (Coffee House), and her unusual biography. The conversation ranges from Wikswo’s childhood spent mostly alone and exquisitely engaged in nature, through epilepsy, and the power of writing the transgressive. “Suffering can be an event that breaks apart the codes… what I’m inching toward is the value of an epoch in our lives when we aren’t normalized,” says Wikswo.
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