Category: Interviews & Excerpts

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…
Contributors’ Corner: Jane Liddle

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 Jane Liddle, whose story “The Last List” appears in 2.2. Jane Liddle waited at school bus stops in Newburgh, New York, learned to drive on the north…
“My Ex Boyfriend Came to Me in a Dream and Told Me Everything I Had Must Fit into a Shoe Rack Inside of His Car”: Tanner Hadfield in Conversation with Elizabeth Mikesch

Elizabeth Mikesch is a prose stylist to shout about. Her debut collection Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari Press) is a breathtaking work of fire, of hips, of sound, of saying. When I approached her about an interview, she asked if I felt like experimenting. I consented, though I wasn’t sure what she had in mind. I…