interviews

Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus is the author of several books, including The Age of Wire and String, The Flame Alphabet, and Notes from the Fog. His stories have appeared in Granta, Conjunctions, Tin House, The New Yorker, and The Best American Short Stories, among other venues. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Berlin Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, and an NEA in Fiction. This year he is a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York with his family, where he is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus

Ben Marcus is the author of several books, including The Age of Wire and String, The Flame Alphabet, and Notes from the Fog. His stories have appeared in Granta, Conjunctions, Tin House, The New Yorker, and The Best American Short Stories, among other venues. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Berlin Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, and an NEA in Fiction. This year he is a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York with his family, where he is on the faculty of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

Ben
Marcus

Courtney Maum

Courtney Maum

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre, Touch, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, and the handbook Before and After the Book Deal: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, forthcoming from Catapult. Her writing has been widely published in such outlets as BuzzFeed, New York Times, O, Oprah Magazine, and Poets & Writers. She is the founder of the learning collaborative, The Cabins, and she also runs a service called “The Query Doula” where she helps writers prepare their manuscripts and query letters for an agent’s eyes.

Courtney Maum

Courtney Maum

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre, Touch, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, and the handbook Before and After the Book Deal: A writer’s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book, forthcoming from Catapult. Her writing has been widely published in such outlets as BuzzFeed, New York Times, O, Oprah Magazine, and Poets & Writers. She is the founder of the learning collaborative, The Cabins, and she also runs a service called “The Query Doula” where she helps writers prepare their manuscripts and query letters for an agent’s eyes.

Courtney
Maum

Diana Marie Delgado

Diana Marie Delgado

Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse and the chapbook Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Columbia University she currently resides in Tucson, where she is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.

Diana Marie Delgado

Diana Marie Delgado

Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse and the chapbook Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Columbia University she currently resides in Tucson, where she is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.

Diana Marie
Delgado

Susan Steinberg

Susan Steinberg

Susan Steinberg is the author of the short story collections Hydroplane, The End of Free Love, and Spectacle. Her first novel Machine: A Novel was released August 20, 2019. She holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches English at the University of San Francisco.

Susan Steinberg

Susan Steinberg

Susan Steinberg is the author of the short story collections Hydroplane, The End of Free Love, and Spectacle. Her first novel Machine: A Novel was released August 20, 2019. She holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches English at the University of San Francisco.

Susan
Steinberg

Tommy Pico

Tommy Pico

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), winner of the 2017 Brooklyn Library Literary Prize and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), winner of a 2018 American Book Award and finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award, Junk (Tin House Books, 2018) finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Feed (forthcoming 2019 from Tin House Books), and the zine series Hey, Teebs. He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013.

Tommy Pico

Tommy Pico

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), winner of the 2017 Brooklyn Library Literary Prize and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), winner of a 2018 American Book Award and finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award, Junk (Tin House Books, 2018) finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Feed (forthcoming 2019 from Tin House Books), and the zine series Hey, Teebs. He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013.

Tommy
Pico