Associate Editor Bel Mercado talks with Darius Stewart about his memoir, Be Not Afraid of My Body, and his essay in Colorado Review. Darius Stewart is the author of Intimacies in Borrowed Light: Poems (EastOver Press, 2022) and Be Not Afraid of My Body: A Lyrical Memoir (Belt Publishing, 2024), which was named a 2025 Stonewall Book Award–Israel Fishman […]
Maya Bernstein-Schalet discusses “Down and Out in Disneyland,” featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with editorial assistant Gabby Vermeire. Maya Bernstein-Schalet is a writer from Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of the Briar Cliff Review’s 2023 Award for Nonfiction, the 2024 University of Arizona Creative Writing Program Bill Waller Award for […]
Editorial assistant Aliza Anderson-Diepenbrock discusses multigenre publication and more with Keith Stahl, whose essay “Rabid” is featured in the Spring 2026 issue of Colorado Review. Keith Stahl’s first novel, Dear Future Occupants, is forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press (Fall, 2026), and his poetry collection, From the Gunroom, is available from Main Street Rag Publishing. […]
Editorial assistant Mai Gokkaya discusses “The House on Front Street,” featured in the Spring 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with author Alix Ohlin. Alix Ohlin is the author of three novels and three story collections, including the most recent, We Want What We Want (Vintage/Anansi). Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American […]
Poet Christine Larusso and associate editor Natalia Sperry discuss poems featured in the 2025 Fall/Winter Colorado Review, climate justice, getting lost in hybrid forms, and the process of writing her 2019 collection, There Will Be No More Daughters, ahead of completing her second manuscript. Christine Larusso is a Chicana-Chinese poet. She holds a BA from Fordham University (Lincoln Center) and an MFA in […]
Mariah Rigg discusses “The Impossible Real,” her story featured in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Sarah Stambaugh. Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. She is the author of the short story collection EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (Ecco, 2025), and the creative […]
Heather Kirn Lanier discusses her essay “An Ounce of Light,” featured in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with Managing Editor Izzy Martens. Heather Lanier is the author of a poetry collection, Psalms of Unknowing, and a memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her essays have appeared […]
Asha Futterman discusses “Song of Gray,” the winner of the 2025 Colorado Prize for Poetry (available for purchase here), with associate editor Autumn Koors-Foltz. Asha Futterman is an actor and poet from Chicago. She holds an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Her chapbook, empathy, was published by The Song Cave in […]
Associate Editor Autumn Koors-Foltz talks to Jacques J. Rancourt about his featured poems in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021) and Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017). His poems have appeared recently in The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Image, and Poetry, and his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for […]
Social entrepreneur Turner Wyatt discusses the process of creating and editing Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology, available for purchase here, with associate editor Josephine Gawtry. Turner Wyatt is the founder of the Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing access to poetry in Colorado (which is supported by […]