“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.
Interviews
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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.
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.
I Have Been Mythologizing Myself: A Conversation with Saba Keramati
To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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....
“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.