Interviews

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel, In Between Days, forthcoming from Knopf in Fall 2012. His short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Threepenny Review, Epoch, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and on NPR's Selected Shorts. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has received a James Michener/ Copernicus Fellowship, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, and the Drake Emerging Writer Award. Currently, he's an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter is the author of the short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel, In Between Days, forthcoming from Knopf in Fall 2012. His short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Threepenny Review, Epoch, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and on NPR's Selected Shorts. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has received a James Michener/ Copernicus Fellowship, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, and the Drake Emerging Writer Award. Currently, he's an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Andrew
Porter

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho. He's the author of four books: Memory Wall, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. His writing has won The Story Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and four O. Henry Prizes. He also writes a regular column about science books for the Boston Globe.

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho. He's the author of four books: Memory Wall, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. His writing has won The Story Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and four O. Henry Prizes. He also writes a regular column about science books for the Boston Globe.

Anthony
Doerr

Caitlin Horrocks

Caitlin Horrocks

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City (Sarabande Books, 2011).Her stories appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, One Story, and elsewhere. Her work has won awards including the Plimpton Prize and a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship. She is a fiction editor at West Branch, and teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Caitlin Horrocks

Caitlin Horrocks

Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City (Sarabande Books, 2011).Her stories appear in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushcart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, One Story, and elsewhere. Her work has won awards including the Plimpton Prize and a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship. She is a fiction editor at West Branch, and teaches at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Caitlin
Horrocks

Douglas Light

Douglas Light

Douglas Light is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His novel East Fifth Bliss received the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. He co-wrote the screen adaptation (The Trouble with Bliss), which stars Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, and Peter Fonda. It is in select theaters and VOD on March 23, 2012. His story collection Girls in Trouble won the 2010 Grace Paley Prize and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2011. His writing won an O. Henry Prize and was included the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, as well as in Narrative, Guernica, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Failbetter.

Douglas Light

Douglas Light

Douglas Light is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His novel East Fifth Bliss received the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction. He co-wrote the screen adaptation (The Trouble with Bliss), which stars Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, and Peter Fonda. It is in select theaters and VOD on March 23, 2012. His story collection Girls in Trouble won the 2010 Grace Paley Prize and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2011. His writing won an O. Henry Prize and was included the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, as well as in Narrative, Guernica, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Failbetter.

Douglas
Light

Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner is author of the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss and Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine. A former correspondent for NPR and the New York Times, Weiner has reported from more than three dozen countries. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Magazine, and the anthology Best American Travel Writing. He divides his time between Starbucks and Caribou.

Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner

Eric Weiner is author of the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss and Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine. A former correspondent for NPR and the New York Times, Weiner has reported from more than three dozen countries. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New York Times Magazine, and the anthology Best American Travel Writing. He divides his time between Starbucks and Caribou.

Eric
Weiner

Mandy Keifetz

Mandy Keifetz

Mandy Keifetz lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Penthouse, Vogue, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the Comics Journal, and many others. Corrido, her first novel, was selected as a best first novel out of New York by the Library Journal. Entertainment Weekly called it “an intoxicating cocktail of sex and death.” Her second novel Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief won the 2010 AWP Award in fiction and was published by New Issues. Keifetz was a Fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002, and her plays have been staged in London, Cambridge, Oslo and New York.

Mandy Keifetz

Mandy Keifetz

Mandy Keifetz lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Penthouse, Vogue, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the Comics Journal, and many others. Corrido, her first novel, was selected as a best first novel out of New York by the Library Journal. Entertainment Weekly called it “an intoxicating cocktail of sex and death.” Her second novel Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief won the 2010 AWP Award in fiction and was published by New Issues. Keifetz was a Fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002, and her plays have been staged in London, Cambridge, Oslo and New York.

Mandy
Keifetz

Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and two forthcoming books: The Burning House (novel, 2011) and Unbuilt Projects (short prose pieces, 2012). His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Five Points, The Seattle Review, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, Story Quarterly, Lo-Ball, and other magazines and anthologies. He's taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell University, Rutgers-Newark, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches at NYU and in the low residency MFA Program at Fairfield University. He lives in New York City.

Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky is the author of Lawnboy, Famous Builder, and two forthcoming books: The Burning House (novel, 2011) and Unbuilt Projects (short prose pieces, 2012). His work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Five Points, The Seattle Review, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, Story Quarterly, Lo-Ball, and other magazines and anthologies. He's taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell University, Rutgers-Newark, and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently teaches at NYU and in the low residency MFA Program at Fairfield University. He lives in New York City.

Paul
Lisicky

Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros is the founder of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, the Elvira Cisneros Award and the Macondo Foundation, all of which work on behalf of creative writers. Recipient of numerous awards including a MacArthur and author of novels: The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, short stories: Woman Hollering Creek, and poetry collections: My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman, she is currently at work on several writing projects including two books of essays, a book of short stories, a novel and a children's book, Bravo, Bruno, to be published in Italy in 2012. Her forthcoming adult book, Have You Seen Marie? with illustrations by Ester Hernandez, will be published in October 2012.

Photograph by Jessica Fuentes.

Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros

Sandra Cisneros is the founder of the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, the Elvira Cisneros Award and the Macondo Foundation, all of which work on behalf of creative writers. Recipient of numerous awards including a MacArthur and author of novels: The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, short stories: Woman Hollering Creek, and poetry collections: My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman, she is currently at work on several writing projects including two books of essays, a book of short stories, a novel and a children's book, Bravo, Bruno, to be published in Italy in 2012. Her forthcoming adult book, Have You Seen Marie? with illustrations by Ester Hernandez, will be published in October 2012.

Photograph by Jessica Fuentes.

Sandra
Cisneros