“Sometimes Beauty Is Enough”: A Conversation with Ivy Grimes
Ivy Grimes is a poet and fiction writer. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, and her work has appeared in The Cimarron Review, PANK, Pacific Review, The Broadkill Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. According to her twitter,…
I Couldn’t Wait for Distance: A Conversation with Mia Herman
Mia Herman is a writer and editor living in Queens, NY. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Atticus Review, Barren Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Hofstra University and is Associate…
So I Mainly Just Write: A Conversation with Lori D’Angelo
Lori D’Angelo earned her MFA from WVU in 2009. Since then, her short fiction has appeared in Stone’s Throw Magazine, Forge, Drunken Boat, Hamilton Stone Review, Juked and elsewhere. She is a fellow at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and…
Woke: A Review of Alan Rossi’s Mountain Road, Late at Night
In Alan Rossi’s, Mountain Road, Late at Night, Nathaniel, from whose perspective the first quarter of the novel is told, has just lost his brother, Nicholas, who he remembers as having had “beautiful and ardent thoughts about life,” but who…
We Know Better
In Terminal, an installation I saw at the entrance of the Smithsonian’s Sackler Gallery, its creator, Subodh Gupta, had arranged a series of spires, the kinds of golden spires seen atop the temples, mosques, and churches of his native New…
The Daunting Irreversible Sacrifice of Giving Up and the Sensual Image of Stinky Cat Litter: A Conversation with John Talbird
John Talbird is an English professor at Queensborough Community College in New York and the author of the thriller fiction novel The World Out There and the chapbook A Modicum of Mankind. John Talbird’s work has been featured in many…
Treading Psyches and Geographies: A Conversation with Ashley Farmer
Ashley Farmer is the author of The Women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), The Farmacist (Jellyfish Highway Press, 2015), Beside Myself (PANK/Tiny Hardcore Press, 2014), and the chapbook Farm Town (Rust Belt Bindery, 2012). A former editor for publications including Atomica…
In Order to Win, You Have to Play to Lose: A Conversation with Laura Sweeney
Laura Sweeney is an associate editor for Eastern Iowa Review and the facilitator of Writers for Life in central Iowa, where she teaches a variety of expressive writing courses to those with chronic health conditions. Sweeney also represented the Iowa…
Meet Magnolia: A Conversation with Lisa A. Levy
“He hoped Magnolia’s soul had taken to the sky like a kite on a beach in winter, her faded papery soul drifting on ribbons of air.” Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lisa Levy works as an interfaith chaplain, providing…