An Interview With Courtney Sender By Associate Editor Heather Gutekunst Courtney Sender’s fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, and many others. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times’s Modern Love and The Atlantic. A Yaddo and MacDowell fellow, she holds an MFA in […]
In this month’s episode, Podcast Editor C Culbertson sits down with Leonora Simonovis, whose book Study of the Raft won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. In their conversation, C talks with Leonora about writing from multilingual backgrounds, the worlds we construct from childhood, memory, and place, as well as modes of writing poetry and what […]
An Interview With Anu Kandikuppa By Associate Editor Eliana Meyer Anu Kandikuppa worked as an economic consultant before she ever began to write, carrying a PhD in finance from Michigan State University. She also holds an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College. Her story follows Sati Bhasker, who married young, moving from […]
More Pandemic Writing? By Associate Editor Mike Moening Last fall, I taught an intro creative writing class that spanned three genres in fifteen weeks—leaving not enough time for any genre. But as a primarily creative nonfiction writer, I was especially saddened by the short five weeks that I had to cram in CNF. In […]
In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Stephanie G’Schwind interviews Lauren Haldeman about her work “Field #1,” from the graphic memoir Team Photograph. With this being Colorado Review’s first piece of graphic memoir, Stephanie and Lauren discuss the intricacies of the genre. Lauren Haldeman was also the recipient of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry with her collection Instead of […]
This month’s episode features Matthew Gavin Frank, creative nonfiction writer, poet, and Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Michigan University. Host Lilia Shrayfer talks with Matthew about his latest book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa. Listen in to hear this brilliant writer talk in […]
An Interview With Megan Baxter By Editorial Assistant Sunset Combs Megan Baxter writes about familial and natural connections through contemplations on cultivation, the body, and home. She is the author of The Coolest Monsters: Essays (Texas Review Press, 2018), Farm Girl: A Memoir (Green Writers Press, 2021), and her forthcoming essay collection, Twenty Square Feet of Skin (Ohio State […]
An Interview With Leonora Simonovis By Associate Editor Alec Witthohn Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan-American poet living in San Diego, where she’s an instructor at the University of San Diego (USD). She teaches creative writing in Spanish in addition to being a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean literature. Her poetry collection Study of the […]
Eating Popcorn in Bed A Collaborative Reflection on a DIY Writer’s Retreat By associate editors JV Genova and Nicole Piasecki We steered our cars separately through the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, on Wyoming Highway 130—also known as Snowy Range Road—toward the historic town of Saratoga to converge for a DIY writing retreat. We, three […]
In this episode of the Colorado Review Podcast, host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Danny Thiemann to discuss his story “One Bad Night in San José, Costa Rica,” forthcoming in the Colorado Review‘s Fall/Winter 2021 issue. This story was awarded the 2021 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction by final judge T. Geronimo Johnson. Thiemann […]