Associate editor Liz Ramirez talks to Aaron Kang Smithson about his essay, “Palimpsest,” featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Aaron is a designer and writer born and raised in New York City. Trained in architecture and urban planning at Columbia and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, his writing focuses primarily on […]
Alex Miller discusses his story “We Who Sleep in the Dust of the Earth,” featured in the Summer 2026 issue of Colorado Review, with Assistant Managing Editor Abi Nelson. Alex Miller is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Denver. He is the author of the story collection Field Guide to Mediocre Men (forthcoming in […]
Editorial assistant Christopher Lyders talks to author Daniel Kuo about his new story, “Empty Spaces,” in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Daniel Kuo is a fiction writer based in California, where he is completing his MFA at UC Riverside. His work has appeared in Red Rock Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Hyphen, and has […]
Editorial assistant Calista LaMotte talks with Emily Winakur about “Who Lives in that House,” her essay featured in the Spring 2023 issue of Colorado Review. Emily Winakur is a psychologist and writer living in Houston. A native of San Antonio, she has also lived in Washington state, Pennsylvania, Miami, and the Boston area. Her poetry […]
Kate Lister Campbell discusses “If You Wanted to Live”—her short story about children of divorce caring for a pet rabbit—with associate editor Trent Kay Maverick. Find this story in the Spring 2026 issue of Colorado Review. Kate Lister Campbell was raised in Kansas City and lives in New York. Her fiction has appeared in Granta […]
Editorial Assistant Gwynnivere Riethoven talks with Janice Deal about her story, BAE, featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Janice Deal is the author of two short story collections and two novels, most recently the novel The Blue Door (New Door Books, 2025). She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists […]
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 […]