Category: Interviews & Excerpts

Contributors’ Corner: Ryder Collins

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Ryder Collins, whose chapbook The way the sky was now appears in 3.1. Ryder Collins has a novel, Homegirl! Her chapbook, The way the sky was now, recently won Heavy Feather Review’s first fiction…
Contributors’ Corner: Katy Gunn

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Katy Gunn, whose selection from Turnspit appears in 3.1. Katy Gunn hula hoops. Her first book, Textile School, is forthcoming from The Lit Pub in the fall of 2014, and a free…
“Because Every Day Brings a New Jumble of Knives”: An Interview with Douglas Watson by Joseph Scapellato

When I read Douglas Watson’s debut story collection, The Era of Not Quite, I was awash with a rare and nourishing feeling: that what I was reading was exactly what I needed to be reading at that time exactly. Each of his stories deals a dark and witty blow. The collection is alive with a…
Contributors’ Corner: Dan Mancilla

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Dan Mancilla, whose story “Lucha Libre” appears in 3.2. Dan Mancilla’s fiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Chicago Tribune, Monkeybicycle, Slice, and River Styx, among other journals. You can read more about Dan…
Contributors’ Corner: Carol Guess

Welcome to “Contributors’ Corner,” where each week we open the floor to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Carol Guess, whose story with Kelly Magee, “With Sloth” appears in 2.2. Carol Guess is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including Tinderbox Lawn (Rose Metal Press, 2008) and Doll Studies: Forensics…
“Friday Was the Bomb”: An Interview with Nathan Deuel

Nathan Deuel’s new book Friday Was the Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East (Dzanc Books) is a memoir about raising his young daughter in the Middle East—living in Riyadh, Istanbul, and then Beirut—while his wife, Kelly McEvers, worked throughout the region as a war correspondent and eventually NPR’s Baghdad Bureau chief. Amid the chaos…
Contributors’ Corner: Justin Hamm

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Justin Hamm, whose three stories appear in HFR 3.3. Justin Hamm is the founding editor of the museum of americana and the author of the chapbooks Illinois, My Apologies…
Contributors’ Corner: Luke Wiget

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Luke Wiget, whose story “An Instrument” appears in HFR 3.3. Luke Wiget is a writer and musician born and raised in Santa Cruz, California who lives in Brooklyn, New York.…
Contributors’ Corner: Britt Melewski

Welcome to our new interview series, “Contributors’ Corner,” where we open the floor each week to one of our contributors to the journal. This week, we hear from Britt Melewski, whose story/poem “Scharky” appears in HFR 3.3. Britt Melewski grew up in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. His poems have appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Philadelphia Review of…