“It All Came Back to My Illness”: A Conversation with April Gibson
Writing about illness is a way to push back against all the pathologizing and dismissiveness. It allowed me to be in charge of my own narrative.
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Intergenerational Epiphany: A Conversation with Margaret Juhae Lee
It’s now my favorite way to write—in community. There’s something safe about it, you feel held.
I Had to Find a New Language: A Conversation with Anna Gazmarian
I wanted to write about faith in a way that people who are not Christian, or do not understand that worldview, could read and have a more nuanced approach to faith.
Vanishing as a Way of Resistance: A Conversation with Saúl Hernández
My job as a write is to first witness, and then record. It would be an injustice to these poems if they were not written from a place of vulnerability and truth.
Complicating Cancel Culture: A Conversation with Christine Ma-Kellams
Subconsciously, when writing my own work, I want to make sure that people understand how these characters became who they are.
The First Book: Eddie Ahn
The themes in the book subsequently shaped the story’s chronology and created a different style of graphic storytelling, connecting my family’s history with my community work and service.
Mother-Daughter Bonds and the Power of Greek Myth: A Conversation with Ann Batchelder
My hope is that as a society we can emphasize compassion over stigma and treatment over punishment.
Confronting the Climate Crisis through Fiction: A Conversation with Mary Annaïse Heglar
You write a book to get over something. You read a book to get into it.
We Are Weird and We Are Not Alone: A Conversation with Mary Biddinger
We are going to need nature more than ever before. We also need to continue being kind to each other and to uplift other writers whenever we can.
“I have to go behind my back to get anything done”: A Conversation with Jackie Wang
. . . the reader animates you. And yet you’re also constrained in some way by that relationship that you form with the audience.
The Bloodier Your Hands, the More Loyal You Become to the System: A Conversation with Sarah Langan
The thing about cults, they indoctrinate. They whitewash. They blind us to better alternatives.
Everything in Our Lived Presence is Interconnected: A Conversation with Ellen van Neerven
Sport is seen as characterizing a nation. If there’s a sense of injustice and inequality in the fabric of what a nation says it is, then how does that trickle down to everyday life?