Lucas Loredo was born in Austin, Texas, and earned his degree in creative writing from Stanford in 2012. His work has been featured by Best American Short Stories, The Washington Square Review, The Southwest Review, and Carve Magazine and profiled by Time Out New York, Juxtapoz, and The Wall Street Journal. He is now an MFA fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in his hometown.
Jeff Chang discusses his latest book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, his work in hip-hip journalism, and the beauty and humanity of political protest.
I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become…