Chaos Seeps Into Order: A Conversation with Maria Reva
If you can laugh about a difficult situation, laugh in your aggressor’s face, it gives you a sense of power.
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Despair is a Luxury, but Hope is a Discipline: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Despair is a luxury, but hope is a discipline.
I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate
I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and the pages.
The First Book: Veena Dinavahi
Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.
The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem
I have a love for showing movement and things as they are. I feel very uncomfortable when things are abrupt, especially if the story doesn’t call for it.
The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams
I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.
The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.
“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott
Falling in love for the first time is like the first draft of a short story you’re writing— messy and exciting and full of possibilities.
Masculinity, Grief, and Music: A Conversation with Denne Michele Norris
Our capacity for imagination is boundless—and that’s where there’s some porousness between how different people move through the world.
The First Book: Sam Ashworth
The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.
Imagining is an Act of Love: A Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong
...no human being is explicitly good or explicitly bad, and asking a character to be relatable all of the time negates the possibility of their being a fully realized human.