I didn’t encounter Appalachian literature until I was an adult, and even then it was clear there were so few female Appalachian voices.
INTERVIEW: Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Author of Kin
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INTERVIEW: Kathryn Nuernberger, Author of The Witch of Eye
I just had this profound feeling of wonder reading about these women…
INTERVIEW: Carol Smith, Author of Crossing the River
I didn’t come to journalism through a traditional path—I was a student of the sciences.
INTERVIEW: Nefertiti Austin, Author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
Interview by Lara LillibridgeMotherhood So White. That’s what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked when people started asking her why she wanted to adopt a “crack baby”…
INTERVIEW: Leslie Lehr, Author of A Boob’s Life
Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs.
Interview with Cecile Pineda, author of Entry Without Inspection: A Writer’s Life in El Norte
Interview by Lara LilllibridgeCecile Pineda is an-award-winning Chicana novelist, memoirist, theater director, performer, and activist who felt misplaced throughout much of her early life. Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant, and her mother was a French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents, while…
Interview: Eileen Cronin, Author of Mermaid
Had we never had the Trump era, I’d probably still be writing essays like I used to, working to conceal my anger…
Interview: Rebecca Fish Ewan, Author of Doodling for Writers
It’s an odd thing that drawing is interpreted as a frivolous thing when it’s so useful
Interview: Aidan Martin, Author of Euphoric Recall
I always knew my story was far more than an addiction-to-recovery tale. However, it most definitely was a cathartic experience, as cliché as that sounds.
A Conversation with Kao Kalia Yang, Author of Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
When we talk about Minnesota, we think about Garrison Keillor, we think of Prince, we think of Bob Dylan. But there are all of these refugees here.
