Lissa Franz discusses “MonkeyMonkeyGirl,” featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Andy Parker. Lissa Franz is a writer, editor and teacher. Passionate about the art of writing, she teaches memoir, fiction, and the college essay. In 2015 she received the Discover New Writers Award in fiction from PEN New England […]
Maureen Thorson discusses her poems featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review with associate editor Erin Peters. Maureen Thorson is the author of three books of poetry: Share the Wealth (Veliz Books, 2022), My Resignation (Shearsman, 2014), and Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). Her book of lyric essays, On Dreams, was published with Bloof Books in 2023. She […]
Robert Krut discusses his poems in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Colorado Review & his newest book, Oh Oblivion (Out October 15 with Codhill Press) with associate editor Josephine Gawtry. Robert Krut is the author of Oh, Oblivion (forthcoming in 2025), Watch Me Trick Ghosts, The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire (winner […]
Calla Jacobson discusses her essay “Hills, Birds Bones,” featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Liz Ramirez. Fulbright recipient Calla Jacobson has a PhD in anthropology and an MFA in creative writing. She is hard at work on a memoir about her experiences with culture, community, storytelling, love, and unexpected […]
Editorial assistant Andy Parker discusses family, teaching, and adolescence with Anne-E. Wood, the author of “Losing It,” featured in the Fall 2024 issue of Colorado Review. Anne–E. Wood is a fiction writer who lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, TLR, Tin House, No Tokens, New Letters, and elsewhere. She was a Yaddo fellow and has […]
Jamie Cattanach discusses her story “Vectors,” featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with associate editor Sarah Stambaugh. Jamie Cattanach is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been featured in major media outlets including CNBC, USA TODAY, SELF, Fodor’s and Ms. Magazine, as well as literary journals like […]
Becky Hagenston discusses her story “Voluntary,” featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with Editorial Assistant Gwynnivere Riethoven. Becky Hagenston is the author of four award-winning story collections, most recently The Age of Discovery and Other Stories, winner of The Journal’s Non/Fiction Book Prize. She is a professor of English at Mississippi State […]
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 […]