After graduation.. I started working at a coffee shop and just spent all my off time at that coffee shop writing poetry.
INTERVIEW: Esteban Rodríguez, Author of Before the Earth Devours Us
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INTERVIEW: Jill Louise Busby, Author of Unfollow Me
Jill Louise Busby (more affectionately known as jillisblack) is a writer and filmmaker critiquing, imploding, and barrel-laughing at our personal and communal hierarchies…
INTERVIEW: Ron Hogan, Author of Our Endless and Proper Work
Ron Hogan offers insight into why writers write, and why it’s worth it to keep writing, whether you ever get published or not.
INTERVIEW: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee, author of Tell Me Everything Thing You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
I picked up this book at the recommendation of a friend, and once I started reading it, I ignored all my assigned tasks for the day
INTERVIEW: Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Author of Kin
I didn’t encounter Appalachian literature until I was an adult, and even then it was clear there were so few female Appalachian voices.
INTERVIEW: Kathryn Nuernberger, Author of The Witch of Eye
I just had this profound feeling of wonder reading about these women…
INTERVIEW: Carol Smith, Author of Crossing the River
I didn’t come to journalism through a traditional path—I was a student of the sciences.
INTERVIEW: Nefertiti Austin, Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Interview by Lara LillibridgeMotherhood So White. That’s what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a “crack baby”…
INTERVIEW: Leslie Lehr, Author of A Boob’s Life
Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs.
Interview with Cecile Pineda, author of Entry Without Inspection: A Writer’s Life in El Norte
Interview by Lara LilllibridgeCecile Pineda is an-award-winning Chicana novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, and activist who felt misplaced throughout much of her early life. Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her mother was a French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents, while…
