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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project features short interviews with interesting people.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #219: Zak Ferguson

  • Jared Pappas-Kelley
  • May 28, 2020
“[I]t is an itch that needs to be scratched. To test. To push. To prove to myself.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe

  • Frances Yackel
  • May 21, 2020
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #217: Sue William Silverman

  • Lia Woodall
  • May 14, 2020
“Our memories are always in flux.”
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning

  • Mesha Maren
  • May 7, 2020
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #215: Traci Brimhall

  • Kathryn Nuernberger
  • April 30, 2020
“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey

  • Lenny DellaRocca
  • April 23, 2020
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky

  • Grace Talusan
  • April 16, 2020
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins

  • Evangeline Riddiford Graham
  • April 2, 2020
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote

  • Ilana Masad
  • March 19, 2020
“Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #210: Melissa Ragsly

  • Anna Vangala Jones
  • March 12, 2020
“I am the salt; the stories are the food.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #209: Lisa Olstein

  • Elizabeth McCracken
  • March 5, 2020
“I don’t think I know how to write if I’m not guided by sound—that’s when it feels like I’m flailing or straining.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck

  • Allie Rowbottom
  • February 20, 2020
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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