“State of Decay”: A Georgia Poets’ Roundtable

Regionalisms abound in accounts of contemporary poetry, and the American South remains one of the most complex and productive of … More

“Juggling a Hundred Objects, Some of Them on Fire”: An Interview with Lance Olsen, Author of SKIN ELEGIES, by Marcus Pactor

Lance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent … More

“A Veiling and Unveiling and Veiling Again”: An Interview with Elisabeth Sheffield by Marcus Pactor

Elisabeth Sheffield is the sort of writer most writers only hope to become: a ventriloquist offering up voice after voice. … More

“An Undercurrent of Darkness”: Bess Winter Interviews Jen Fawkes, author of TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME

Over the past several weeks I’ve been emailing back-and-forth with Jen Fawkes, author of Mannequin and Wife (LSU Press) and … More

“The Sky Never Left the Sky”: Tiffany Troy Interviews Mai Der Vang about her newest collection YELLOW RAIN

Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the … More

“Spending Time with the Beast”: Maxwell Malone Interviews Darrin Doyle, Author of THE BEAST IN AISLE 34

Darrin Doyle is an author and English professor at Central Michigan University whose fiction has appeared in Puerto del Sol, … More

“Defiance and Dilemmas”: An Interview with Michael J. Seidlinger on his latest book, RUNAWAY: A WRITER’S DILEMMA, by Hillary Leftwich

Is writing an act of defiance itself? Or do the dilemmas we face as writers push us into acts of … More

“Repetition Is Magical”: Jesi Buell in Conversation with Candice Wuehle, author of FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed

Candice Wuehle’s most recent poetry collection FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed centers around the magical elements of our everyday lives. Through … More

“The Stories We Tell to Keep Ourselves Alive”: Wendy Bourgeois Interviews Thea Prieto, Author of FROM THE CAVES

Thea Prieto’s debut From the Caves, winner of the Red Hen Novella Award, contains an entire post-apocalyptic world that is … More

“The Reasonable Liminality of SILENT HILL 2”: Chris Kelso in Conversation with YouTuber Jacob Geller

As an educator, I can confirm my controversial belief (and with some certainty) that video games are the nascent form … More

“Always Dress for Mud”: James Braun Interviews Peter Markus, Author of WHEN OUR FATHERS RETURN TO US AS BIRDS

I first came to Peter Markus not knowing what I needed was Peter Markus. That’s how most of us come … More

“Promise Me Home”: Tiffany Troy in Conversation with Naoko Fujimoto about Her Newest Poetry Collection GLYPH

Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. She is the author of Where I Was Born (Willow Publishing, … More