Interviews
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“Simply tell the story”: A VOA Mini-interview with Nikkya Hargrove
…family relationships can and do change, and those we feel “kin” to can also change.
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Doing the Work of Remembering and Naming: A Conversation with Keiko Lane
I thought I was writing an essay, and then people kept showing up in my memory and talking and demanding to be included.
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Excavating Land, One Ancestor at a Time: A Conversation with Susan A. Brewer
The people keeping the records tend to have authority, and they tend to have an agenda, so they’re going to portray things in a way that fits their agenda.
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I Have Been Mythologizing Myself: A Conversation with Saba Keramati
To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.
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The Sad–Beautiful: A Conversation with Amy Stuber
I usually go into a story with a feel for a situation or a character or a place more than an actual storyline.
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My Voice Doesn’t Fall Neatly into a Category: A Conversation with Desiree Akhavan
I think everyone changes. I feel a lot more steadfast in who I am and what I make.
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Living in a Nowhere Space: A Conversation with Olivia Gatwood
Tech perpetuates ideas we’ve already had about women, but it just blows them out of proportion to kind of impossible degrees.
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The First Book: Santiago Jose Sanchez
I was repeatedly drawn to the fractures in my life—the gaps between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and my relationships with sex, my mother, and my motherland.
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The Complex Heritage of Assimilation: A Conversation with Randy Ribay
Our collective individual efforts impact in some way, the community. It’s important for me to not pass judgment because we are all figuring it out.
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“I Wanted the Magic Bullet”: A Conversation with Jessica Hoppe
…that’s what’s toxic: the belief that I’m not enough. Substances are, in general, neutral.
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The First Book: Melissa Petro
In our culture, motherhood is presumably sanctified, and I thought I’d experience social acceptance beyond anything I’d ever imagined. Instead, I felt under constant surveillance and yet utterly invisible….
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“I thought my sorrow could transform me”: A Conversation with Megan Pinto
Visually, prose tells us that we’re moving through time, through narrative or rhetoric, and visually, poetry tells us we’re moving up and down through lyric, feeling.