Category: Interviews & Excerpts

“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…
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…