“Resonance Is a Very Personal Thing”: Hillary Leftwich Chats with Teague von Bohlen, author of the flash fiction collection FLATLAND

Teague von Bohlen is a Midwestern man at heart, and his latest collection, Flatland, represents, both verbally as well as … More

“Ten Songs, the Sound of Ambient Noise, and the Clanking of Chains”: A Playlist for Andrew Rihn’s REVELATION: AN APOCALYPSE IN FIFTY-EIGHT FIGHTS

My book Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights has the honor of being the first book released through Press 53’s … More

“Leave Them Wanting More”: Gay Degani Interviews TENDER CUTS Author Jayne Martin

Jayne Martin, author of the collection of tiny stories, Tender Cuts (Vine Leaves Press, 2019), is hailed as “A badass … More

“Love, Loss, and Nazis in Norway”: Gay Degani Interviews HOMING Author Johanna Robinson

Johanna Robinson’s flash novella, Homing, is a revelation not only in its form—flash chapters pinpointing specific moments in time in … More

“You Are What You Read”: An Interview with John Madera about the 10th Anniversary of the BIG OTHER Literary Journal

John Madera’s fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many … More

“We’re a Creepy Bunch”: Hillary Leftwich Talks to Sarah Read, Author of the Story Collection OUT OF WATER

Sarah Read is a force in the horror genre and has a long-standing history of publications in numerous top tier … More

“Don’t Think About the Elephant”: An Interview with Andrew Farkas, Author of THE BIG RED HERRING

  Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: … More

“Dissonance, Shock, and the Inevitable Truth”: Gay Degani Chats with Sandra Arnold, Author of SOUL ETCHINGS

  Both the title of Soul Etchings (Retreat West Books, 2019) by Sandra Arnold, the cover with its crackled baby-doll faces, … More

“Glorious Fragments”: Andrew Farkas Interviews Ron MacLean, Author of WE MIGHT AS WELL LIGHT SOMETHING ON FIRE

  We Might As Well Light Something on Fire, Ron MacLean’s collection, immediately interested me because, in a time when … More

Matthew Thorburn & J.G. McClure: A Collaborative Interview between Poets

Matthew Thorburn’s new book of poems, The Grace of Distance, was published by LSU Press in August 2019. He’s also the author … More

“Serious Play”: An Interview with Carol Guess & Aimee Parkison, co-authors of the story collection GIRL ZOO

I was first introduced to Carol Guess’s collaborative work while I was editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review and we published … More

“Outside the door there is an animal writing my name in the blood of other animals”: William Lessard Interviews Adam Tedesco, Author of MARY OLIVER

With the publication of Mary Oliver (Lithic Press, 2019), Adam Tedesco gives us a cycle of poems that places topics … More