Jarek Steele discusses “Nesting,” featured in the Spring 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with editorial assistant Bel Mercado. Jarek Steele (he/him) writes creative nonfiction with themes of family, queerness, gender, nature, and whatever else is happening around him. His work has appeared in HuffPost, Fourth Genre, Electric Literature, AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. […]
Gillian Conoley discusses her new collection, Notes from the Passenger, with Iris Jamahl Dunkle. Gillian Conoley is a poet, editor, and translator. Her new collection is Notes from the Passenger with Nightboat Books May 2023. The author of ten collections of poetry, Conoley received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and […]
Brent Ameneyro talks family as mythology, food as memory, and language as reality with associate editor Josephine Gawtry. Brent Ameneyro is the author of the chapbook Puebla (Ghost City Press, 2023). His poetry has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, The Journal, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA at San Diego State University, where he was […]
Associate editor Linnea Harris spoke with Carolyn Kuebler about her process as a multi-genre writer, the influence of community involvement on her writing, and her essay “Self-Storage,” published in the Summer 2022 issue of Colorado Review. Carolyn Kuebler is a Vermont-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Kuebler earned a BA from Middlebury […]
Amanda Rea discusses Among Men, a short story featured in the Summer 2024 issue of Colorado Review, with associate fiction editor Jennifer Wortman. Amanda Rea’s stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, the Missouri Review, the Kenyon Review, The Sun, Electric Literature, Indiana Review, […]
Kazim Ali visited the Colorado Review production house in Fort Collins, Colorado, to talk fragmentation, spirituality, queerness, social justice, and land with Associate Editor River Grabowski over tea. Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple […]
Bruce Beasley talks walking as writing, prayer as evoking, and artistic doppelgangers with associate editor Laurel Roth. Bruce Beasley is the author of nine collections of poems, including most recently Prayershreds (Orison Books, 2023) and All Soul Parts Returned and Theophobia, both from BOA Editions. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Artist Trust […]
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 […]