Interviews
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On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood: A Conversation with Jennifer Case
When we study evolutionary biology, we learn that parenting was never supposed to take place in just a nuclear family. Yet that’s what has happened in our culture—with the majority of the expectations placed on mothers’ shoulders.
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The Loose Borders of Genre: A Conversation with Kyle Winkler
I would suggest making friends with a horror writer, if nothing else.
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“The Force That Shapes Us”: A Conversation with Kenzie Allen
There will always be something new waiting to be found.
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Seduced from Line to Line: A Conversation with Christian J. Collier
I want the work to sing on the page and, if someone were to read it aloud, sing as it exists in the air.
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“We are so often strangers to ourselves”: A Conversation with Jordan Windholz
There is only so much you can tell your children about the reality of the world. So, to navigate that necessary withholding, we tell stories.
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Clawing Our Way Toward Delight: A Conversation with Lyndsay Rush
This is not a lifetime achievement, it’s just my first collection of some poems that I love. And hopefully, there will be more.
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Chasing the Afterlife: A Conversation with Susan L. Leary
What does it mean to live a life? What does it mean to live a good life?
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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.
