Lesley Jenike talks museums, musicality, and marionettes with associate editor Julia Marquez-Uppman. Lesley Jenike’s work has appeared in the Colorado Review, the Iowa Review, the Kenyon Review, Image, West Branch, the Rumpus, and many other journals. An essay of hers first published in the Bennington Review was listed as “Notable” in 2023’s Best American Essays anthology. Her first collection of essays City of Toys was the runner-up for […]
Mary Grimm talks mother-daughter relationships, ghost stories, and flash fiction with managing editor Lauren Furman. Mary Grimm has had two books published, Left to Themselves (novel) and Stealing Time (story collection). Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and the Mississippi Review, as well as in a number of journals that publish […]
2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Gale Marie Thompson talks trees, Taylor Swift, and lyrical phenology with associate editor Tashiana Seebeck. Gale Marie Thompson is the author of Helen or My Hunger and Soldier On. Her poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, and Mississippi Review, among others. A winner of […]
Lisa Ampleman talks drafting poems by hand, what it means to be an editor who writes, and staying curious with editorial assistant Erin Peters. Lisa Ampleman is the author of a chapbook and three full-length books of poetry, most recently Mom in Space (2024) and Romances (2020), both with LSU Press. She lives in Cincinnati and is the managing editor of The […]
K. S. Dyal talks Buffalo, NY, multiple points of view, and writing about love with editorial assistant Carolyn Silverstein. K. S. Dyal is the author of the novella It Felt Like Everything (Ad Hoc Fiction 2022) and work in or coming from Colorado Review, Carve Magazine, Quarterly West, CutBank, HAD, and elsewhere. She writes from Washington, D.C. Find her online @KSDyal and ksdyal.wordpress.com. […]
Surya Milner talks the importance of questioning oneself, weaving research with experience, and writing about place with associate editor Anna Emerson. Surya Milner is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Northwestern University’s Litowitz Program. Her work has been published in Majuscule, the Willowherb Review, Catapult, The Audacity, and High Country News. Anna Emerson: So […]
Analía Villagra talks eccentric female protagonists, crowded apartment buildings, and the power of punctuation in fiction with editorial assistant Maia Coen. Analía Villagra’s work appears in Colorado Review, Ecotone, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship recipient. Her writing has also been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ […]
John Gallaher talks decidedly non-musical poetry, being both Bambi and Superman, and asking oneself “Why now?” with assistant managing editor Chase Cate. John Gallaher is the author of six collections of poetry, including the forthcoming My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books 2024); two coauthored poetry collections, one with G.C. Waldrep, Your Father on the Train […]
Timothy Donnelly discusses the poetics of impossibility, the role of the contemporary poet, and the connective power of poetry across time and space with editorial assistant Natalia Sperry. Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book, Chariot, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many, winner of the inaugural Big […]
Lindsey Drager talks narrative, space and time in the short story form, and artistic influences outside of prose with associate editor Ben Zelic. Lindsey Drager’s books have won a Shirley Jackson Award, been finalists for two Lambda Literary Awards, and are currently being translated into Spanish and Italian. A 2020 NEA fellowship recipient in prose and winner […]