The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project: Melissa Wiley
“All evolution—in every sense—entails loss, the need to let things go.”
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Kristine Langley Mahler
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Kristine Langley Mahler is a memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie outside Omaha, Nebraska. Her work was named Notable in Best American Essays 2019 and has been published in DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Brevity, The Normal School, and The Rumpus, among others. She is the publisher/editor-in-chief at Split/Lip Press. Find more about her projects at kristinelangleymahler.com or @suburbanprairie.
My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots
Five Plots wades into the enigmatic relationships between family and memory, where truth is seemingly as placid as the Platte River but re-examination causes a re-route.
I Will Not Die for You
Each bug in the water is one less bug on my fruit, I tell myself, ignoring the truth: under the soil, another is born.