Liz Axelrod is a graduate student at The New School. She was Managing Editor of two award-winning editions of 12th Street, the New School’s undergraduate literary journal; Editor-in-Chief of www.12thstreetonline.com, and is now a Poetry Reader for LIT Magazine. Her work has been published in the Cat Oars Fiction Collective, 12th Street, Lyre Lyre, The Rumpus, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is currently working on her first collection of poems tentatively titled Nowhere Tongue.
David James Poissant talks about his debut collection, The Heaven of Animals, revisiting story characters in novels, and the differences between realist and "glowing baby stories."