Coming Out of Her Shell: A Conversation with Anelise Chen
Gregor Samsa went to bed a tired, overworked salesman and woke up as a giant cockroach. Anelise Chen’s own metamorphosis was nowhere near as drastic. Clam Down: A Metamorphosis (One…
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Ultimately Unbounded: A conversation with Alina Ștefănescu
Mystic-heretic-philosopher-poet Alina Ștefănescu’s newest collection of poetry, My Heresies (Sarabande 2025) is a radiant skirmish of families and selfhood, countries and allegiances, rules and refusals, and the force with which…
The First Book: Daniel Tam-Claiborne
I began writing Transplants in earnest in 2019 during the last semester of my MFA program. I had the truly great fortune of working with Lauren Groff who, when given the option between helping me touch up my existing short stories for my graduate thesis or advising me on a new project nearly entirely from scratch, wisely nudged me toward the latter.
Take A Risk and Stand at The Edge of a Cliff: A Conversation with Jen Michalski
In her newest novel, All This Can Be True (Keylight Books, 2025), Michalski makes readers want to break out the black eyeliner and catch a show headlining (the excellently named) Clit Girls.
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.
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.