Interviews

Daniel Orozco

Daniel Orozco

Daniel Orozco's work has appeared in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, and Zoetrope All-Story. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.

Daniel Orozco

Daniel Orozco

Daniel Orozco's work has appeared in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, and Zoetrope All-Story. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.

Daniel
Orozco

Dara Wier

Dara Wier

Dara Wier's books include Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, Hat On a Pond, and Voyages in English. Among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books in 1999). Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. Her work appears in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, The Fairytale Review, Hollins Critic, and jubilat, among others.

Dara Wier

Dara Wier

Dara Wier's books include Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, Hat On a Pond, and Voyages in English. Among her works are the limited editions (X In Fix) in Rain Taxi's Brainstorm Series, Fly on the Wall (Oat City Press), and The Lost Epic, co-written with James Tate (Waiting for Godot Books in 1999). Her poetry has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the American Poetry Review. Her work appears in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, The Fairytale Review, Hollins Critic, and jubilat, among others.

Dara
Wier

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh's second volume of poetry, Year of the Snake, was published by Southern Illinois University Press and was subsequently named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004. Her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Roripaugh is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota.

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh's second volume of poetry, Year of the Snake, was published by Southern Illinois University Press and was subsequently named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004. Her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Roripaugh is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota.

Lee Ann
Roripaugh

Samuel Pickering

Samuel Pickering

Samuel Pickering is a Tennessee native who teaches English at the University of Connecticut. He has written 21 books, including academic studies, travel books, and collections of familiar essays. His most recent books are Edinburgh Days, an account of months spent in Scotland, and Autumn Spring, a collection of essays. He is now working on A Tramp's Wallet, an account of months spent wandering Australia and New Zealand. This will give him a trilogy on Australia, something, he says, sounds very high falutin.

Samuel Pickering

Samuel Pickering

Samuel Pickering is a Tennessee native who teaches English at the University of Connecticut. He has written 21 books, including academic studies, travel books, and collections of familiar essays. His most recent books are Edinburgh Days, an account of months spent in Scotland, and Autumn Spring, a collection of essays. He is now working on A Tramp's Wallet, an account of months spent wandering Australia and New Zealand. This will give him a trilogy on Australia, something, he says, sounds very high falutin.

Samuel
Pickering

Steve Almond

Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction book Candyfreak. His new book is a collection of essays, (Not That You Asked). He lives outside Boston with his wife and daughter Josephine, who can now make the noises of seven different farm animals.

Steve Almond

Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction book Candyfreak. His new book is a collection of essays, (Not That You Asked). He lives outside Boston with his wife and daughter Josephine, who can now make the noises of seven different farm animals.

Steve
Almond

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods and two collections of poetry: Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, Poetry, Tin House, and many other magazines, and have been widely anthologized. Among Dybek's numerous awards are a MacArthur Prize, the Rea Award, PEN/Malamud Prize a Lannan Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and several O.Henry Prizes. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern and a member of the permanent faculty for Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program.

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek

Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction: I Sailed With Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods and two collections of poetry: Streets in Their Own Ink and Brass Knuckles. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, Poetry, Tin House, and many other magazines, and have been widely anthologized. Among Dybek's numerous awards are a MacArthur Prize, the Rea Award, PEN/Malamud Prize a Lannan Award, a Whiting Writers Award, and several O.Henry Prizes. He is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern and a member of the permanent faculty for Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program.

Stuart
Dybek

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Lillian C. Smith Awards, respectively. Jones's work has appeared in McSweeny's, Callaloo, The New York Times, New Stories From The South, and The Believer. Jones is both a writer and a professor of creative writing, and holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University and the University of Iowa. In Fall 2007, Jones joined the newly-established MFA faculty of Rutgers University—Newark, one of the most diverse college campuses in the country.

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is the author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling, winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and The Lillian C. Smith Awards, respectively. Jones's work has appeared in McSweeny's, Callaloo, The New York Times, New Stories From The South, and The Believer. Jones is both a writer and a professor of creative writing, and holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University and the University of Iowa. In Fall 2007, Jones joined the newly-established MFA faculty of Rutgers University—Newark, one of the most diverse college campuses in the country.

Tayari
Jones