The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alexis Ivy
“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
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Mini-Interviews
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Amy Mackelden and Dr. Dylan Jaggard
“We wanted to give voice to people who are often spoken for.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber
“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Aruni Kashyap
“[T]he testimonial form is rebellious; it says that it will record what the state tried to erase.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Ray Stoeve
“You can’t fake knowledge of zip zap zup.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alison McGhee
“Stories hurt, stories heal, stories save our lives.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Felicia Rose Chavez
“Listening is the first and most important step to maintaining a storytelling tradition.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Meg Pokrass
“The book is about the complicated problem of loving.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Karen Salyer McElmurray
“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring
“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sayantani Dasgupta
“I wanted to write a story that doesn’t shy away from the problems but one that’s also hopeful.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Gina Nutt
“I like marinating in uncertainty for as long as possible.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Susan Shapiro
“My challenge was to tell my own story but also find ways to weave in wisdom and gravitas.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Kim Addonizio
“Poetry is a mode of thinking through things that I can’t really articulate.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Amy Solomon
“Making people feel heard and seen and not left out to dry is my job.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus
“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: David Biespiel
“In the act of writing about it and revising it, I’m still having the experience.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz
“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Hope Campbell Gustafson
“I enjoy and do all of that research, and it must make the translation better.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Forsyth Harmon
“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Mike Alberti
“I think about loss as echoes or circular structures.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Robin Gow
“I always knew I wanted to write a queer saint holy book.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Jeff Tweedy
“The fact is we’re all living part of one long song.”
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The Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
“And as those masks fall away, we get down to the shame and envy underneath.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
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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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