“I remember my Dad telling my sister and me, ‘You are a double minority, black and a woman, you gotta be twice as good to get half as much.’”
INTERVIEW: Cija Jefferson, Author of Sonic Memories and Other Essays
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Miah Jeffra, Author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!
…what is truthful is that the way that you remember it is how you have been constructed, no matter how minutely or profound that was.
INTERVIEW: Melissa Valentine, Author of The Names of All the Flowers
This book saw me through active grief. It saw me through figuring out how to write. It saw me through finding my way into my story.
INTERVIEW: Davon Loeb, Author of The In-Betweens
As a poetry editor, one thing that I prefer is narrative poetry—don’t explain; show it.
INTERVIEW: Jason B. Rosenthal, Author of My Wife Said You Wanted to Marry Me: A Memoir
In March 2017, Jason’s wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, penned her final goodbye – an essay called “You May Want to Marry my Husband”.
Interview: Sejal Shah, Author of This Is One Way to Dance
I spoke with Sejal Shah while we were both on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic about her essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance.
Interview with Rachel Louise Snyder, Author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.”
INTERVIEW: Timothy J. Hillegonds, Author of The Distance Between
I didn’t want the book to be the classic three-act structure to the recovery narrative: what it was like, what happened, what it’s like now.
Interview: Raechel Anne Jolie, Author of Rust Belt Femme
I sat down via the internet with Raechel Anne Jolie, author of debut memoir Rust Belt Femme to discuss mothers, writing, and politics.
Interview with Katie McDougall and Susannah Felts, Co-Founders of The Porch, Nashville’s Literary Center
I asked the founders to sit down and explain the who, what, why, and how of creating a literary center.
