Nicholas Gulig talks about exploring grief, grace, resistance, and poetic lineage in his new collection The Other Altar, winner of the 2024 Colorado Prize for Poetry, with associate editor Natalia Sperry. Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Eau Claire and is the current Wisconsin Poet Laureate. The author of North of Order (YesYes Books) and Orient (CSU Poetry Center), he currently works as an […]
Afsheen Farhadi discusses his story “On the Faces of Others,” featured in the Summer 2016 issue of Colorado Review, with editorial assistant Navya Sharma. Farhadi’s story “Omar in the Fog” was recently featured in the Summer 2024 issue. Afsheen Farhadi‘s short fiction and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Witness, […]
Nathan Blum discusses “Big White Tent,” forthcoming in the Fall 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Sarah Mullens. Nathan Blum is a writer from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. His work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Fiction at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches […]
Jarek Steele discusses ‘Nesting,’ featured in the Spring 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with editorial assistant Bel Mercado. Jarek Steele (he/him) writes creative nonfiction with themes of family, queerness, gender, nature, and whatever else is happening around him. His work has appeared in HuffPost, Fourth Genre, Electric Literature, AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. […]
Gillian Conoley discusses her new collection, Notes from the Passenger, with Iris Jamahl Dunkle. Gillian Conoley is a poet, editor, and translator. Her new collection is Notes from the Passenger with Nightboat Books May 2023. The author of ten collections of poetry, Conoley received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and […]
Brent Ameneyro talks family as mythology, food as memory, and language as reality with associate editor Josephine Gawtry. Brent Ameneyro is the author of the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023). His poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA at San Diego State University, where he was […]
Associate editor Linnea Harris spoke with Carolyn Kuebler about her process as a multi-genre writer, the influence of community involvement on her writing, and her essay “Self-Storage,” published in the Summer 2022 issue of Colorado Review. Carolyn Kuebler is a Vermont-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Kuebler earned a BA from Middlebury […]
Amanda Rea discusses Among Men, a short story featured in the Summer 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with associate fiction editor Jennifer Wortman. Amanda Rea’s stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, the Missouri Review, the Kenyon Review, The Sun, Electric Literature, Indiana Review, […]
Kazim Ali visited the Colorado Review production house in Fort Collins, Colorado, to talk fragmentation, spirituality, queerness, social justice, and land with Associate Editor River Grabowski over tea. Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple […]
Bruce Beasley talks walking as writing, prayer as evoking, and artistic doppelgangers with associate editor Laurel Roth. Bruce Beasley is the author of nine collections of poems, including most recently Prayershreds (Orison Books, 2023) and All Soul Parts Returned and Theophobia, both from BOA Editions. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust […]