My peers and I were finding that it was hard to find places to our send work. So initially I co-founded a literary journal with a few friends.
INTERVIEW: Summer Stewart, Co-founder & Publisher of Unsolicited Press
Category: Interviews
Our archive of interviews with authors, publishers, agents, filmmakers, and other literary and publishing professionals.
INTERVIEW: Kim Liao, Author of Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence
Where Every Ghost Has a Name spans the year Liao spent in Taiwan wading her way through her family’s history, which has been largely erased or hidden away by the government.
INTERVIEW: Tamara J. Walker, Author of Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad
These content creators, like those Black press writers and reporters, know something that has always been obvious to them, and has escaped the attention of the mainstream media….
INTERVIEW: Karen Salyer McElmurray, Author of I Could Name God in 12 Ways: Essays
Risk is in the very landscape of Eastern Kentucky, where I’m from.
INTERVIEW: Sylvia Brownrigg, Author of The Whole Staggering Mystery
The Whole Staggering Mystery is a memoir of fathers lost and found, and of children rebuilding bridges burned by their own parents.
INTERVIEW: Jesse Lee Kercheval, Author of French Girl
I always think with a poem, if I knew where it was going, it wouldn’t be a good poem.
INTERVIEW: Jonathan Corcoran, Author of No Son of Mine: A Memoir
Jonathan Corcoran, born and raised in rural West Virginia, writes about the messy estrangement from his mother in No Son of Mine: A Memoir.
INTERVIEW: Ellen van Neerven, Author of Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
The collection invites readers to better understand and imagine queer and First Nations experiences in Australia, where Ellen van Neervan lives.
PROFILE: Jeannine Ouellette, Author of The Part That Burns & Creator of Writing in the Dark
Part of my desire to profile [Jeannine] sprang from my curiosity to dissect what she’s doing that’s unique and effective and that differentiates her from others in her field.
INTERVIEW: Barrie Miskin, Author of Hell Gate Bridge
It’s summer 2016 when Barrie Miskin decides to go off her low-dose antidepressant in order to conceive
