Interviews

J. Kates

Interviewed by Bredt Bredthauer

I’m interested in the way translators come to the poetry they translate. How did you come to Magny’s work and what made you want to translate him into English?

Interviews

David Huddle

Interviewed by Claire Eder and Andrew Donovan

Why did you choose a wren and a bear for your poem “Wren & Bear” from Subtropics 14?

Interviews

Suzanne Halmi

Interviewed by Tarah Dunn

Where are you from? What do you do?

I grew up in northwestern New Jersey when it was more rural than it is now, although there are still a lot of farms and wooded areas despite more and more development. I was a librarian and then a doctoral student (English), but now I’m a stay-at-home mother with young children.

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Lauren Groff

Interviewed by Emma Smith-Stevens

In your writing, history is brought into the present moment of your narrative through memory, documents, and by giving voice to ghosts. What philosophical or personal beliefs underlie that choice?

Interviews

Mark Girshin

Interviewed by Anastasia Kozak

When did you start working on your memoir, Mosaic[from which The Seaweed Mattess is excerpted]? If it was after your immigration to America, what are the advantages, if any, to writing about one’s childhood and the past so far away from Odessa?

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Edward Gauvin

Interviewed by Carrie Guss and Sabrina Jaszi

If we were doing this interview in person, we’d ask you to perform your life’s history in interpretive dance. Since we don’t have that luxury, do you think you could tell it to us in five sentences or less?

Interviews

Okla Elliott

Interviewed by Gentris L. Jointe

In an interview with Pif Magazine, you said your father, a soldier in World War Two, “came home a mostly useless drunk and ruined his family.” Did you have his experiences and nightmares in mind when you wrote “The Patience of the Landmine?” How did you arrive at this poem?

Interviews

John Brandon

Interviewed by Daniel O’Malley

According to the jacket on your novel Arkansas, while you worked on the book you also “worked at a lumber mill, a windshield warehouse, a Coca-Cola distributor, and several small factories that produce goods made of rubber and plastic.” That’s not a small number of jobs—what kind of time span are we talking about here? Were you moving around a lot? How’d that experience affect your writing?

Interviews

Sebastian Boensch

Interviewed by Trevor Crown

Your one-page piece in Subtropics 19 explores the idea of wanting to accomplish something before death. How do you as a writer define accomplishment, and what do you seek to accomplish?

Interviews

John Batki

Interview and kitchen testing by Rachel Khong (additional kitchen testing by Magdalen Powers)

What first drew you to Gyula Krúdy, and what led you to begin translating his work?