The More I Wrote, The More I Remembered: Q & A with Laura L. Engel

I felt compelled to start the conversation about what had happened, addressing the crippling legacy of shame and guilt from leaving our babies decades ago. Continue reading →

“Thinking of 40 as the Starting Gate”: Q & A with Jan Beatty

I wanted to write the book that I’d been looking for my entire life and never found. Continue reading →

Urban Legends and Conspiracy Theories: Q & A with Jeff Chon

“We all know what it feels like to feel like something less than what we’re supposed to be.” Continue reading →

What Is Said and What Is Unsaid: Q & A with Ellen Prentiss Campbell

Being a psychotherapist attuned me to discerning both to what is said and what is unsaid, accustomed me to seeking to understand conscious and unconscious motivation—above all, to listening. Continue reading →

Scoring a Poem: Q & A with Emily Sun

I allowed myself to write without compartmentalizing the Chinese from the English, the Cantonese from the Mandarin, and let the sounds from other places dance and mix into the poems. Continue reading →

There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late: Q & A with Morowa Yejidé

by Alice Stephens

“There is no writing life—there’s just your life and how writing fits into it.” Continue reading →

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 →