Con(verse) Interview with Jonathan Gleason

In Conversation with Jonathan Gleason Anna Emerson   Jonathan Gleason is a writer, teacher, and medical interpreter who recently completed his MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. Gleason writes about illness, medicine, the body, and his manuscript “Field Guide to Falling Ill,” was shortlisted for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. His work […]

Five Queer Literary Magazines to Read This Summer

Five Queer Literary Magazines to Read This Summer Alec Witthohn   Many LGBTQIA+ readers and writers, myself included, are familiar with the blanket diversity statements that appear on the “about” pages and submission guidelines of many mainstream literary journals across the country. It’s important, I think, for queer authors to be able to achieve a […]

An Interview with Alyson Mosquera Dutemple

An Interview with Alyson Mosquera Dutemple By Ross Reagan   Alyson Mosquera Dutemple’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Passages North, DIAGRAM, The Journal, and Wigleaf, among others, and recently received an honorable mention for Cincinnati Review‘s 2021 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards. She works as an editorial consultant and creative […]

An Interview with Shze-Hui Tjoa

An Interview with Shze-Hui Tjoa Megan Lear   Hailing from Singapore originally, Shze-Hui Tjoa now lives in London, where she works across nonfiction genres from memoir and lyric essays to cultural criticism. Her work has appeared in Southeast Review, So to Speak, the Oxford-Cambridge University anthology The Mays, and more. A list of her work and Shze-Hui’s […]

Eating Popcorn in Bed

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 […]

An Interview with Molly Rogers, Author of “House of Secrets” (Spring 2021)

Molly Rogers writes on the history and theory of photography. She is the author of Delia’s Tears (Yale, 2010) and co-editor of To Make Their Own Way in the World (Aperture, 2020). She is associate director of the NYU Center for the Humanities and lives in Queens, New York. On February 17, 2021, Colorado Review […]

“The Intersection of the Self and the World”: An Interview with Caitlin Ferguson

Caitlin Ferguson holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark. Her work has appeared in Tar River Poetry Review, Twickingham Notes, Cathexis NW Press, and Colorado Review, among others. Currently, she lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she works in a bookstore and is an adjunct professor. On February 24th, Colorado Review editorial […]

An Interview with Mary Grimm, Author of “The Weight You’re Born With” (Fall/Winter 2020)

Mary Grimm is the author of two books, Left to Themselves (novel) and Stealing Time (story collection), both by Random House; her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Antioch Review, Mississippi Review, and Bellingham Review. Currently, she is working on a novel set in 1930s Cleveland. She teaches fiction writing at Case Western […]

An Interview with Jennifer Genest, Author of “The Mills” (Summer 2020)

Jennifer Genest grew up riding horses and playing in the woods of Sanford, a mill town in southern Maine. She now lives near Los Angeles. Her fiction has appeared in New Delta Review, Post Road Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Her essay “The Mills” was published in the summer issue of Colorado Review. Associate editor […]