Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey Interviewed by Sarina Redzinski The first thing that struck me about “Blue Moon” was its merging of our “human world” with the natural world. For instance, the anthropomorphism of the animals provides the emotional arc of the poem….
Wynne Hungerford
Wynne Hungerford Interviewed by Savannah Horton The narrator in your story, “Sacred Window Exhale,” is a former guest and current employee at an alternative medicinal retreat that spans the realms of the real and surreal. Could you explain a bit…
Vix Gutierrez
Vix Gutierrez Interviewed by Timothy Schirmer In your essay, Dark Sky City, you recount a violent attack that you and your boyfriend suffered late one evening while crossing the street in your hometown, Flagstaff, Arizona. You use the second person perspective to strap…
Elisa Guidotti
Elisa Guidotti Interviewed by Sarina Redzinski So first I wanted to start with a little bit about your background. You’re from Italy, but you live in Germany and “The Drama Club” is written in English. How did you come to…
Daisy Fried
Daisy Fried Interviewed by Kayla Beth Moore You’ve got two very different laundry poems in this issue. How would you describe the role of domestic labor in each of these pieces? Is it background music, the thing that’s happening while…
Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson Interviewed by John Bolen How did you come to name the antagonist of the story John F. Kennedy in the first place? It was mostly an accident. A boy who antagonized me in high school was named after…
Cameron Thomas Snyder
Cameron Thomas Snyder Interviewed by Angela Bell You’re so successful at making “Houses of the Holy” feel rooted in place and time. What’s your real-life relationship to the setting? Did you grow up in Kansas? I sort of grew…
Jana Prikryl
Jana Prikryl Interviewed by Stephen de Búrca Something that stands out in your five “Anonymous” pieces is how careful and precise the speaker is in establishing the scene for the reader, as if to avoid affecting the scenes. Had you…
Tom Whalen
Tom Whalen Interviewed by Mitchell Galloway Walser’s short fictions are often difficult to classify. You submitted “Rain” as a poetry translation, but we decided to accept it as fiction. What about this piece lends itself to be more a piece…
Chris Bachelder
Ari Banias
Tyler Barton
C. Dylan Bassett
John Batki
Sebastian Boensch
John Brandon
Brittany Cavallaro
Paul Crenshaw
Russell Dame
Brad Eddy
Sarah Edwards
Okla Elliott
Emily Flouton
Alice Friman
Laura Furman
Edward Gauvin
Mark Girshin
Lauren Groff
Suzanne Halmi
David Huddle
Troy Jollimore
Daphne Kalotay
J. Kates
Roy Kesey
Ashley Keyser
Jon Loomis
Kuzhali Manickavel
Jamie McKendrick
Christopher Merkner
Christina Nichol
Idea Novey
Richard O’Brien
Chinelo Okparanta
Alan Michael Parker
Alex Perez
Heather Wells Peterson
Kevin Phan
Thomas Pierce
Liz Prato
Kevin Prufer
Bernard Quiriny
Mira Rosenthal
Josh Russell 2017
Josh Russell 2018
Maggie Shipstead
Bennett Sims
George Singleton
Ryan Ruff Smith
Emma Smith-Stevens
A. E. Stallings
Paul Theroux
Christian Wiman
Pamela Murray Winters
Katherine Young