Interviews

Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. Her work has appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Fence, New England Review, Nimrod, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Since 2005, Sheehan has directed the Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Arizona, where she also teaches fiction.

Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, as well as a short story collection, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. Her work has appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Fence, New England Review, Nimrod, and The Southern Review. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Camargo Fellowship, the Jack Kerouac Literary Award, and an Artists Projects Award from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Since 2005, Sheehan has directed the Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Arizona, where she also teaches fiction.

Aurelie
Sheehan

Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks is the author of the essay “Bully at the Pulpit: One American's Cultural Exchange with Cuba." Primarily a writer of fiction, he has published work in Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Mississippi Review, Notre Dame Review, The Florida Review, Other Voices, Crab Orchard Review, Story Quarterly, Confrontation, and Writers' Forum. His stories have won an O. Henry Prize and a Nelson Algren Award, and he has been awarded grants by the state arts councils of both Massachusetts and Arizona, by the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and other cultural organizations. His novel The Icebox was published in 1987. Currently he is writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches in the BFA and MFA programs.

Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks is the author of the essay “Bully at the Pulpit: One American's Cultural Exchange with Cuba." Primarily a writer of fiction, he has published work in Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Epoch, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Mississippi Review, Notre Dame Review, The Florida Review, Other Voices, Crab Orchard Review, Story Quarterly, Confrontation, and Writers' Forum. His stories have won an O. Henry Prize and a Nelson Algren Award, and he has been awarded grants by the state arts councils of both Massachusetts and Arizona, by the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and other cultural organizations. His novel The Icebox was published in 1987. Currently he is writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches in the BFA and MFA programs.

Ben
Brooks

Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. She is a student in the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery, and splits the year between Miami and the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell

Chase Twichell is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2010) which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. She is a student in the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery, and splits the year between Miami and the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Chase
Twichell

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle's first novel, Revenge of the Teacher's Pet: A Love Story (LSU Press), was described by the NY Times Book Review as “an original tale that earns its readers' trust, and breaks their hearts a little in the process.” Publisher's Weekly called his second novel The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin's Press) “relentlessly inventive.” Darrin's stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Long Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Laurel Review, Harpur Palate and other journals. He teaches at Central Michigan University.

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle

Darrin Doyle's first novel, Revenge of the Teacher's Pet: A Love Story (LSU Press), was described by the NY Times Book Review as “an original tale that earns its readers' trust, and breaks their hearts a little in the process.” Publisher's Weekly called his second novel The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo (St. Martin's Press) “relentlessly inventive.” Darrin's stories have appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Long Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, Laurel Review, Harpur Palate and other journals. He teaches at Central Michigan University.

Darrin
Doyle

David Huddle

David  Huddle

David Huddle is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University. He taught for 38 years at the University of Vermont and continues to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English. Huddle's work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Hudson Review, Story, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Poetry, Best American Short Stories, The New York Times Book Review, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, and The Georgia Review. Tupelo Press has just published his third novel, Nothing Can Make Me Do This, and in 2012, LSU Press will publish his seventh poetry collection, Black Snake at the Family Reunion.

David Huddle

David  Huddle

David Huddle is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University. He taught for 38 years at the University of Vermont and continues to teach at the Bread Loaf School of English. Huddle's work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Hudson Review, Story, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, Poetry, Best American Short Stories, The New York Times Book Review, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, and The Georgia Review. Tupelo Press has just published his third novel, Nothing Can Make Me Do This, and in 2012, LSU Press will publish his seventh poetry collection, Black Snake at the Family Reunion.

David
Huddle

Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels. Bell's eighth novel, All Soul's Rising, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. All Souls Rising, along with the second and third novels of his Haitian Revolutionary trilogy, Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That The Builder Refused, is available in a uniform edition from Vintage Contemporaries. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, appeared in 2007. Devil's Dream, a novel based on the career of Nathan Bedford Forrest, was published by Pantheon in 2009. His most recent novel is The Color of Night.

Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels. Bell's eighth novel, All Soul's Rising, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. All Souls Rising, along with the second and third novels of his Haitian Revolutionary trilogy, Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That The Builder Refused, is available in a uniform edition from Vintage Contemporaries. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, appeared in 2007. Devil's Dream, a novel based on the career of Nathan Bedford Forrest, was published by Pantheon in 2009. His most recent novel is The Color of Night.

Madison Smartt
Bell

Steve Yarbrough

Steve Yarbrough

A native of Indianola, Mississippi, Steve Yarbrough is the author of three short story collections and five novels, the most recent of which, Safe from the Neighbors, was published by Knopf in 2010. His work has won both the California Book Award and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction, and he has been a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives near Boston and teaches at Emerson College.

Steve Yarbrough

Steve Yarbrough

A native of Indianola, Mississippi, Steve Yarbrough is the author of three short story collections and five novels, the most recent of which, Safe from the Neighbors, was published by Knopf in 2010. His work has won both the California Book Award and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction, and he has been a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives near Boston and teaches at Emerson College.

Steve
Yarbrough

Victor Lodato

Victor Lodato

Victor Lodato is a playwright and novelist. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Camargo Foundation (France), and The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy). For his plays, he has received numerous awards, including one from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Victor's first novel, Mathilda Savitch, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book has been translated into thirteen languages, and published in sixteen countries. Mathilda Savitch received the PEN USA Award for Fiction and The Barnes & Noble Discover Award.

Victor Lodato

Victor Lodato

Victor Lodato is a playwright and novelist. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Camargo Foundation (France), and The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy). For his plays, he has received numerous awards, including one from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Victor's first novel, Mathilda Savitch, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book has been translated into thirteen languages, and published in sixteen countries. Mathilda Savitch received the PEN USA Award for Fiction and The Barnes & Noble Discover Award.

Victor
Lodato