interviews

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker

Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, and faculty in the University of Tampa’s low-residency M.F.A. program, Alan Michael Parker is a poet, novelist, professor, raconteur, and squeaky wheel. He writes books.

Alan Michael Parker

Alan Michael Parker

Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, and faculty in the University of Tampa’s low-residency M.F.A. program, Alan Michael Parker is a poet, novelist, professor, raconteur, and squeaky wheel. He writes books.

Alan Michael
Parker

Alissa Nutting

Alissa Nutting

Alissa Nutting is an American author and creative writing professor. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Fence, BOMB and the fairy tale anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me.

Alissa Nutting

Alissa Nutting

Alissa Nutting is an American author and creative writing professor. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Fence, BOMB and the fairy tale anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me.

Alissa
Nutting

Bojan Louis

BOJAN LOUIS is a member of the Navajo Nation — Naakai Dine’é; Ashiihí; Ta’neezahnii; Bilgáana. He is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and Poetry & Production Editor for RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. His first poetry collection, Currents, was published by BkMk Press in Fall 2017.

Bojan Louis

BOJAN LOUIS is a member of the Navajo Nation — Naakai Dine’é; Ashiihí; Ta’neezahnii; Bilgáana. He is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and Poetry & Production Editor for RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. His first poetry collection, Currents, was published by BkMk Press in Fall 2017.

Bojan
Louis

Dean Bakopoulos

Dean Bakopoulos is an American writer. He is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and writer-in-residence at Grinnell College. Bakopoulos has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Dean Bakopoulos

Dean Bakopoulos is an American writer. He is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and writer-in-residence at Grinnell College. Bakopoulos has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Dean
Bakopoulos

Gregory Donovan

Gregory Donovan

Gregory Donovan is the author of Torn from the Sun (Red Hen Press, 2015) and Calling His Children Home (U. of Missouri Press), winner of the Devins Award for Poetry. His poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, diode, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and many others. He's the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Award from New England Writers, grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Donovan is on the faculty of the graduate creative writing program of Virginia Commonwealth University, and he is Senior Editor for Blackbird.

Gregory Donovan

Gregory Donovan

Gregory Donovan is the author of Torn from the Sun (Red Hen Press, 2015) and Calling His Children Home (U. of Missouri Press), winner of the Devins Award for Poetry. His poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, diode, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and many others. He's the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Award from New England Writers, grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Donovan is on the faculty of the graduate creative writing program of Virginia Commonwealth University, and he is Senior Editor for Blackbird.

Gregory
Donovan

Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti is the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine and has published three works of fiction: Animal Crackers, The Good Thief and The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.

Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti is the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine and has published three works of fiction: Animal Crackers, The Good Thief and The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.

Hannah
Tinti

Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times MagazineThe Wall Street JournalThe Guardian, Lenny Letter and others. In 2017, HMH Books (US) and Serpent's Tail (UK) published her novel All Grown Up. It will also be published in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Russia, China, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Hungary in 2018.

Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, books, television, and urban life for The New York Times MagazineThe Wall Street JournalThe Guardian, Lenny Letter and others. In 2017, HMH Books (US) and Serpent's Tail (UK) published her novel All Grown Up. It will also be published in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Russia, China, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Hungary in 2018.

Jami
Attenberg

Joan Kane

Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of Milk Black CarbonThe Straits, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife and Hyperboreal. She has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the USA Projects Creative Vision Award, and an American Book AwardInupiaq with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, she raises her children in Anchorage, Alaska, and is a faculty mentor with the low-residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Joan Kane

Joan Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of Milk Black CarbonThe Straits, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife and Hyperboreal. She has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the USA Projects Creative Vision Award, and an American Book AwardInupiaq with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, she raises her children in Anchorage, Alaska, and is a faculty mentor with the low-residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Joan
Kane

M.L. Rio

M.L. Rio

M. L. Rio was born in Miami and raised in North Carolina by parents from California, and has never been able to satisfactorily answer the question, “Where are you from?” She spent most of her childhood in Middle Earth or Neverland or Wonderland, attended Hogwarts for a number of years, and eventually graduated from the real-life University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in English and dramatic art and a minor in creative writing. Storytelling has always been her specialty.

M.L. Rio

M.L. Rio

M. L. Rio was born in Miami and raised in North Carolina by parents from California, and has never been able to satisfactorily answer the question, “Where are you from?” She spent most of her childhood in Middle Earth or Neverland or Wonderland, attended Hogwarts for a number of years, and eventually graduated from the real-life University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in English and dramatic art and a minor in creative writing. Storytelling has always been her specialty.

M.L.
Rio

Michele Poulos

Michele Poulos

Michele Poulos's first feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, had its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival. The film’s an official selection at seven more festivals including the Palm Beach Film Festival and Virginia Film Festival. She holds a BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA degree in poetry from Arizona State University, and an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. Iris Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Black Laurel. A Disturbance in the Air won the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition.

Michele Poulos

Michele Poulos

Michele Poulos's first feature-length documentary film, A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet, had its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival. The film’s an official selection at seven more festivals including the Palm Beach Film Festival and Virginia Film Festival. She holds a BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA degree in poetry from Arizona State University, and an MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University. Iris Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Black Laurel. A Disturbance in the Air won the Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition.

Michele
Poulos

Rebecca Stafford

Rebecca Stafford

Rebecca Stafford is the author of Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / Boston Review 2012 Poetry Contest. In 2014, she won a Pushcart. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry 2013 and 2015.

Rebecca Stafford

Rebecca Stafford

Rebecca Stafford is the author of Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012), winner of the 2011 Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, and Vow, from Cleveland State University Press. She was the 2010-11 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Creative Writing Institute and winner of the “Discovery” / Boston Review 2012 Poetry Contest. In 2014, she won a Pushcart. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, and Best American Poetry 2013 and 2015.

Rebecca
Stafford

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels and six story collections. Most recent are Mapping the Interior, from Tor.com and the comic book My Hero, from Hex Publishers. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels and six story collections. Most recent are Mapping the Interior, from Tor.com and the comic book My Hero, from Hex Publishers. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.

Stephen
Jones