The Author of To the Midnight Sun: A Story of Revolution, Exile and Return talks about his new memoir and the processes around writing it, how he found the time, on finding his literary voice, about the character of his grandmother, identity, revolution, and lots more.
Category: Author interviews
An Interview with Steve Rasnic Tem, King of the Horror Short Story
Tem lives alone in a modest house just south of Denver. Most striking when you walk in are the two walls—living room and adjoining dining room—covered with family portraits: his kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids. One senses the warmth and richness of his family that’s he’s surrounded himself with which makes his forays into darkness and horror all the more frightening and intriguing.
An interview with Shari Caplan
The author of the poetry book Exhibitionist talks about her book, her collage artwork, about being a shapeshifter, the book’s sexual undertone, the “female gaze”, the magic of art, and lots more.
An Interview with Zoje Stage
The author of My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast talks about her inspiration, the illustrations, process, and more.
Guess Who’s Written a Children’s Book? An interview with Wayne McDonald
The book is a combination of riddle poems and colorful, charming illustrations, challenging the reader to guess the mysterious animal on the next page. The animals are an eclectic bunch, from the well-known—bison, giraffe—to the more exotic such as the axolotl. The poems sneak in bits of “teacher” information and dashes of puns and humor. (To wit, regarding the axolotl, “You now know a ‘lotl’ about us….”)
An Interview with Dr. Dipak Giri on Poetics of Creation
In this wide ranging interview, Dr. Jernail Singh Anand talks at length about poetry, the role of poets, aspirations, inspirations, speaking truth, and lots more.
Six questions to Ruth Oskolkoff, Author of Voyage to the Sun
The author of Voyage to the Sun: The Tao te Ching For Children talks about her own childhood, her minimalist style of writing, the Tao and how it fits our present world, on preparing children for the real world, her family support, and more.
An interview with Anne Elezabeth Pluto
I recently had a zoom interview with poet Anne Elezabeth Pluto to discuss her most recent book, How Many Miles to Babylon. The author sipped tea while holding her adorable adopted French Bulldog named Celine on her lap. Pluto is the editor of Nixes Mate Review and teaches at Lesley University. This is her second book.
I am secretly trying to light a wick: A Conversation between Matt Mauch and Tiffany Troy about their new books
I tell my students to fall in love with the process—the process of writing, of doing it every day, of making it a habit, a job that doesn’t pay you but matters more than the jobs that do—and that the product will come. I try to teach them to take the long view. Saying “the product will come” is my assent to our economic system, to capitalism, to ego.
Mary Pacifico Curtis and Sybil Baker In Conversation
The authors of Understanding Moonseed and Apparitions chat about their books, inspirations, their settings and the importance of place, process, spirituality, ghosts, magic realism, the impact of covid, and much more.