Category: Interviews & Excerpts

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…
Contributors’ Corner: Chelsea Laine Wells

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 Chelsea Laine Wells, whose story “We Sink Like Ships” appears in HFR 3.3. Chelsea Laine Wells is a graduate of the Columbia College of Chicago fiction department whose work…
Contributors’ Corner: Guy Benjamin Brookshire

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 Guy Benjamin Brookshire, whose three collages with accompanying captions appear in HFR 3.3. Guy Benjamin Brookshire was born in Searcy, Arkansas, in 1977, got covered in fire ants in 1980,…
Contributors’ Corner: Joe Sacksteder

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 Joe Sacksteder, whose story/screenplay hybrid “Game in the Sand” appears in HFR 3.3. Joe Sacksteder teaches creative writing at Eastern Michigan University and the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility. Later…
Contributors’ Corner: Ace Boggess

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 Ace Boggess, whose poems appear in 2.2 and HFR 3.3 (read) and story, with Jessica Lynn Hall, “You Shouldn’t Have Done It,” appears in 3.1. Can you share a…
Contributors’ Corner: Matt Sailor

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 Matt Sailor, whose story “Crisis on Infinite Earths” appears in 3.2. Can you share a moment that has shaped you as a writer (or continues to)? Early in…
Contributors’ Corner: Timmy Reed

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 Timmy Reed, whose stories “The Spider’s Eggs” and “Minutes from Meeting of Afterdeath Board of Directors” appear in 2.1 and 3.2. Timmy Reed is a writer from Baltimore, Maryland.…
Contributors’ Corner: Trent England

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 Trent England, whose story “Patience Is the Most Passive Discipline” appears in 2.2. Trent England lives and writes in Salem, Massachusetts. He is currently working on both a play…