Monica Macansantos discusses her new book, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen, featuring “A Shared Stillness,” first published in the Spring 2021 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Alaina Villoria. Monica Macansantos is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2025), and a story collection, Love and […]
Assistant Managing Editor Abi Nelson talks to Ji Hyun Joo about her story “Chef Clem” featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Ji Hyun Joo is a writer raised in San Diego, California and Gyeongi-Do, South Korea. She completed her M.F.A in Fiction at Columbia University, where she is a recipient of the […]
Petra Salazar discusses brutal honesty, querencia, resistance to colonial borders and binaries, her forthcoming collection, Harsh Terrain, and more with editorial assistant Kyle Mayl. Petra’s poems “Chupacabra” and “Our People” were featured in the Fall/Winter 2023 issue of Colorado Review. Petra Salazar is a poet and educator from Northern New Mexico, where her work is […]
Rebecca Turkewitz discusses queerness, nontraditional communities, life in 1850s textile mills and boarding houses, and her first foray into historical fiction featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review with editorial assistant Trent Kay Maverick. Rebecca Turkewitz is the author of the story collection Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press), which was a […]
Brittany Cavallaro discusses her poems in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review, working in multiple genres, and more with managing editor Izzy Martens. Brittany Cavallaro is the author of the poetry collections GIRL-KING and UNHISTORICAL (University of Akron Press). Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. Cavallaro […]
Emily Wortman-Wunder discusses “Geography of Forgetting,” featured in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Linnea Harris. Emily Wortman-Wunder is the author of Not a Thing to Comfort You (2019), winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Colorado Book Award. Her work has appeared in Guernica, The Kenyon Review, Creative […]
Victoria Chang discusses writing as a reader, the relationship between poetry and philosophy, and her work in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Colorado Review with Assistant Managing Editor Chase Cate. Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She is the […]
Alyse Knorr discusses reverence, video games, and her newest poetry collection, Wolf Tours, with associate editor Erin Peters. Alyse Knorr is an associate professor of English at Regis University and co-editor of Switchback Books. She is the author of the poetry collections Wolf Tours (2024); Ardor (2023), a Lambda Literary Award finalist; Mega-City Redux (2017); Copper Mother (2016); and Annotated Glass (2013). […]
Jared Green discusses The Garden of Perfect Brightness, featured in the Spring 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with editorial assistant Maia Coen. Jared Green is an author, visual artist, and professor of English literature at Stonehill College. His fiction, poetry, and critical writing have appeared in numerous journals, including Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Chicago Review, […]
Lilly U. Nguyen discusses “The Possibilities of a Line,” featured in the Summer 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Amy Gordon. Lilly U. Nguyen is a writer based in San Diego. Her writing is published or forthcoming in River Teeth, the Southern Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and the North American Review. She has […]