Interviews

Ander Monson

Ander Monson

Ander Monson is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently Letter to a Future Lover (Graywolf, 2015). He edits the magazine DIAGRAM, the New Michigan Press, and the website Essay Daily, among other projects. 

Ander Monson

Ander Monson

Ander Monson is the author of six books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently Letter to a Future Lover (Graywolf, 2015). He edits the magazine DIAGRAM, the New Michigan Press, and the website Essay Daily, among other projects. 

Ander
Monson

Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernández is the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She has written for The Atlantic, ColorLines, The New York Times, and NPR's All Things Considered and CodeSwitch, and her essays have been published in the Bellingham Review, Dogwood, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and Hunger Mountain. She teaches creative writing at Miami University in Ohio. 

Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernández is the author of A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir and coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. She has written for The Atlantic, ColorLines, The New York Times, and NPR's All Things Considered and CodeSwitch, and her essays have been published in the Bellingham Review, Dogwood, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and Hunger Mountain. She teaches creative writing at Miami University in Ohio. 

Daisy
Hernandez

E.J. Levy

E.J. Levy

E.J. Levy’s writing has been featured in Best American EssaysThe New York Times, and the Paris Review, among other publications, and has received a Pushcart Prize. Her debut story collection, Love, In Theory, won the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award and the 2014 Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award.

E.J. Levy

E.J. Levy

E.J. Levy’s writing has been featured in Best American EssaysThe New York Times, and the Paris Review, among other publications, and has received a Pushcart Prize. Her debut story collection, Love, In Theory, won the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award and the 2014 Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award.

E.J.
Levy

Julie Schumacher

Julie Schumacher

Julie Schumacher grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Oberlin College and Cornell University.  Her first novel, The Body Is Water, was published by Soho Press in 1995 and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Minnesota Book Award. Her other books include Dear Committee MembersAn Explanation for Chaos, and five novels for younger readers, all from Delacorte. Ms. Schumacher lives in St. Paul and is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Minnesota.

Julie Schumacher

Julie Schumacher

Julie Schumacher grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Oberlin College and Cornell University.  Her first novel, The Body Is Water, was published by Soho Press in 1995 and was an ALA Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Minnesota Book Award. Her other books include Dear Committee MembersAn Explanation for Chaos, and five novels for younger readers, all from Delacorte. Ms. Schumacher lives in St. Paul and is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Minnesota.

Julie
Schumacher

Karen Bender

Karen Bender

Karen Bender is a novelist and short story who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with her husband and her two children. Her story collection, Refund, was just published by Counterpoint Press in 2015; it was on the shortlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Karen Bender

Karen Bender

Karen Bender is a novelist and short story who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with her husband and her two children. Her story collection, Refund, was just published by Counterpoint Press in 2015; it was on the shortlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller.

Karen
Bender

Lily King

Lily King

Lily King grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.A. in English Literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and Creative Writing at several universities and high schools in this country and abroad. Lily's latest novel, Euphoria, was released in June 2014. It won the Kirkus Award for Fiction 2014, the New England Book Award for Fiction 2014 and was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Lily King

Lily King

Lily King grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.A. in English Literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She has taught English and Creative Writing at several universities and high schools in this country and abroad. Lily's latest novel, Euphoria, was released in June 2014. It won the Kirkus Award for Fiction 2014, the New England Book Award for Fiction 2014 and was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Lily
King

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of the books Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions,The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, Something Bright, The Argonauts, The Latest Winter, Shiner, and Bluets.

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of the books Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions,The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, Something Bright, The Argonauts, The Latest Winter, Shiner, and Bluets.

Maggie
Nelson

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew Bergman was raised in North Carolina and now lives on a small farm in Vermont.  She is the Associate Director of Bennington College's MFA program.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Megan Mayhew Bergman was raised in North Carolina and now lives on a small farm in Vermont.  She is the Associate Director of Bennington College's MFA program.

Megan
Mayhew Bergman

Sarah Einstein

Sarah Einstein

Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Passion (Shebooks 2014), and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Sarah Einstein

Sarah Einstein

Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Passion (Shebooks 2014), and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Sarah
Einstein