Countering the Stereotype of “Caught Between Two Cultures”: Q&A with Eman Quotah

By Alice Stephens

“I’ve been writing all this time, since university. It’s just taken a while to have a book in my hands.” Continue reading →

Mr. Fing Goes to Hell: Q&A with Y.S. Fing, son of D. Selby Fing

by Tyler Gore

“Multiple layer allegory was Dante’s great gift to me, but I mixed it up with my experience, my particular philosophical tendency/preference — irony with love…” Continue reading →

Don’t Just Pass ‘Em By

By Martha Anne Toll

“It came in a sudden gust, the thought that I could give it all up, throw everything overboard, ditch the career in social justice that I truly loved and that was close to forty years in the making, and do what had been calling me for decades: write full time.” Continue reading →

Discipline and Magic: Q & A with Karen Craigo

by Evelyn Somers

“I decided in 2015, on New Year’s Day, that I wanted to have a book, so I just declared it the Year of the Book. It was a powerful lesson that what you put out there energetically, you reap.” Continue reading →

Breaking Open the Box: A Conversation with Toi Derricotte

by Nancy Koerbel

“There are just all kinds of ways to diminish yourself, but your writing is a way to think of yourself as an expansive self. ” Continue reading →

Remembering, Revering, Revealing Pauline Kael: Q & A with Rob Garver

by Sonya Chung

“Even if you felt she was wrong about a movie, she was always enlightening—or funny, or maybe rude, or all three at once.  And she believed that at his best, a critic could be an artist too.” Continue reading →

The Secret Story: K. L. Cook on What’s Hidden

by Joe Schuster

“Maybe all stories are really about secrets and revelations” – K. L. Cook Continue reading →