Genre Archive: Interviews

Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

Ben Loory, Author

Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Jeff Shotts, Editor

Interviewed by Barbara Fant

Khadijah Queen, Author, Poet

Interviewed by Jordan Nakamura

David Ulin, Author, Critic, Editor

Interviewed by Yvonne de la Cruz Sánchez

Francesca Lia Block, Author

Interviewed by Adrien Kade Sdao

Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Alistair McCartney, Author

Interviewed by Andrea Auten

Juan Felipe Herrera, Author

Interviewed by Jennifer Mahoney

Siel Ju, Author

Interviewed by Kori Kessler

Tony Lewis, Jr., Author

Interviewed by Shaneka Jones Cook

Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Cecil Castellucci, Author

Interviewed by Jennifer Mahoney

Lisa Dickey, Author & Ghostwriter

Interviewed by Judy Gitterman

Eloise Klein Healy, Poet

Interviewed by Jessica Abughattas

Joe Ide, Author

Interviewed by Andre Hardy

Ashaki Jackson, Poet

Interviewed by Shaneka Jones Cook

Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

Matt de la Peña, Author

Interviewed by Kim Sabin

Natashia Deón, Author

Interviewed by Judy Gitterman

Katrina Dodson, Author & Translator

Interviewed by Lauren Kinney

Dara Hyde, Literary Agent

Interviewed by Emma Margraf

Tara Ison, Author

Interviewed by Melissa Benton Barker

Fady Joudah, Poet

Interviewed by Doni Shepard

Geeta Kothari, Author

Interviewed by Meredith Arena

Andromeda Romano-Lax, Author

Interviewed by Shaneka Jones Cook

Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Harry Dodge, Artist

by Carrie Kellerby

Tananarive Due, Author

by Kate Maruyama

Michael Jaime-Becerra, Author

by Sherrye Henry Jr.

Todd Mitchell on Graphic Narratives: The Frontier of Visual Storytelling

by Katy Avila

Fred Moten, Poet

by Doni Shepard

Susan Southard, Author

by Emma Margarf

Ana Maria Spagna, Author

by Haley Isleib

Donald Strauss, Urban Sustainability Activist

by Meredith Arena

Doug Unger, Author and Activist

by Juliann Allison

Sarah Van Arsdale, Author

by Melissa Benton Barker

Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

Jimmy Santiago Baca, Author

by Rochelle Newman-Carrasco

Stephen Chbosky, Author

by Lyndsay Hall

Nina Revoyr, Author

by Carrie Kellerby

Lois Dodd, Painter

by Ron Burch

Vu Tran, Author

by Sam Williams

Stories about Bodies: Narrative Medicine with Emily Rapp Black, Juliet McMullin, & Phillip Mitchell

by Katy Avila

Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Elise Capron, Literary Agent

Interviewed by Tai Farnsworth

Lynell George, Journalist and Essayist

Interviewed by Rochelle Newman

Richard Russo, Author

Interviewed by Erin Schwartz

Sonya Sones, Author

Interviewed by Roz Weisberg

Matthew Zapruder, Poet

Interviewed by José Hernández Díaz

Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

Nick Flynn, Author

interviewed by Sarah Miller Freehauf

Allison Joseph, Poet

interviewed by Kiandra Jimenez

Kerry Madden-Lunsford, Author

interviewed by Lisa Trahan

Susan Straight, Author

interviewed by Diana Greenwood

Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

Blas Falconer, Poet

Interviewed by Rochelle Newman

Janet Fitch, Author

Interviewed by Tai Farnsworth

Dana Gioia, Poet

Interviewed by Michael Passafiume

Jill Marr, Literary Agent

Interviewed by David Bumpus

Anne Ursu, Author

Interviewed by Lisa Trahan

Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Lev Grossman, Author

Interviewed by David A. Napier

Cosme Cordova, Artist and Community Arts Organizer

Interviewed by Kiandra Jimenez

Elizabeth Earley, Author

Interviewed by Ashley Perez

Douglas Kearney, Poet

Interviewed by Candace Butler

D. J. Waldie, Author

Interviewed by Jennifer McCharen

Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

Emily Rapp, Author

Interviewed by Cynthia Rosi

Camille T. Dungy, Poet

Interviewed by Candace Butler

Mary Gordon, Author

Interviewed by Cheryl Wheelright

Patrick O’Neil, Author and Filmmaker

Interviewed by Ashley Perez

Wendy C. Ortiz, Author

Interviewed by Karly Little

Luis J. Rodriguez, Author

Interviewed by Jamie Moore

Dan Smetanka, Editor

Interviewed by Lise Quintana

Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

Peter Riva, Literary Agent

Interviewed by Lise Quintana

Kazim Ali, Poet

Interviewed by Kolleen Carney, with Michael Passafiume

MANDEM (Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman-Arendsee), Collaborative Artists

Interviewed by Ashley Perez and Audrey Mandelbaum

Lin Oliver, Children’s Book Author

Interviewed by Helen Akers

Susan Orlean, Author

Interviewed by Rachael Warecki

Gary Phillips, Crime Fiction Author

Interviewed by Robert Morgan Fisher

Issue 2: Winter/Spring 2013

Jillian Lauren, Author and Memoirist

Interviewed by Lise Quintana

Aimee Bender, Author

Interview by Kathleen Whitney Rohr

Greg Neri, Young Adult Author and Poet

Interviewed by Kristen Schroer

Arthur Sze, Poet

Interviewed by Janice Ko Luo and José Hernandez Diaz

David L. Ulin, Author and Los Angeles Times book critic

Interviewed by Wendy Fontaine

Issue 1: Spring 2012

Natasha Trethewey, United States Poet Laureate

interviewed by Daniel Reinhold

Gregory Boyle, Author and Activist

interviewed by John Paulett

Rick Moody, Author

interviewed by Robert Egan

Francesca Lia Block, Author

interviewed by Yolanda Bridges