Dinnerview: Tommy Pico
Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay...
View ArticleDinnerview: Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry and other literary journals. Her poetry collection ATRIUM (Three Rooms Press)...
View ArticleDinnerview: Analicia Sotelo
Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018. She is also the author of the chapbook...
View ArticleDinnerview: Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and six poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an American...
View ArticleDinnerview: Raena Shirali
Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes Books, 2017), which won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a 2019 PEN America Writer’s Emergency Fund Grant,...
View ArticleDinnerview: Ruth Awad
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book...
View ArticleDinnerview: Kendra DeColo
Kendra DeColo is the author of My Dinner with Ron Jeremy (Third Man Books, 2016) and Thieves in the Afterlife (Saturnalia Books, 2014), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2013 Saturnalia Books Poetry...
View ArticleDinnerview: Sammi Skolmoski
Sammi Skolmoski is a writer and fiber artist born, living, and probably dying in Chicago. She is the managing editor at Featherproof Books and a headline contributor at The Onion, with work regularly...
View ArticleDinnerview: Stevie Edwards
Stevie Edwards is the author of two poetry collections, Good Grief (Write Bloody) and Humanly (Small Doggies), as well as a recent chapbook Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry). She holds a poetry M.F.A....
View ArticleDinnerview: Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of The Surrender Tree, Enchanted Air, Forest World, Drum Dream Girl, and a recent verse memoir Soaring Earth. She is the recipient of many awards and...
View ArticleDinnerview: Noah Warren
Noah Warren is the author of The Complete Stories (Copper Canyon, 2021), and The Destroyer of the Glass (2016), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is a doctoral student in English at UC...
View ArticleDinnerview: Alison C. Rollins
Alison C. Rollins, born and raised in St. Louis city, currently works as the Lead Teaching and Learning Librarian for Colorado College. She is a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellow....
View ArticleDinnerview: Andrew Feld
Andrew Feld is the author of two books of poetry, most recently Raptor (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Here, he talks about sharing food with the people you love, a deep appreciation for soft...
View ArticleDinnerview: Naomi Washer
Naomi Washer is the author of Phantoms (dancing girl press) and American Girl Doll (Ursus Americanus Press). She is also the translator from the Spanish of Sebastián Jiménez Galindo’s Experimental...
View ArticleDinnerview: Claudia D. Hernández
Claudia D. Hernández was born and raised in Guatemala. She’s a photographer, poet, editor, translator, and a bilingual educator residing in Los Angeles. She is the author of Knitting the Fog, the 2018...
View ArticleDinnerview: Jane Huffman
Jane Huffman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere, and she is a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the...
View ArticleDinnerview: Tara Betts
Tara Betts is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue as well as the chapbooks 7 x 7: kwansabas and THE GREATEST!: An Homage to Muhammad Ali. She is part of the MFA faculty at Stonecoast –...
View ArticleDinnerview: Erin Elizabeth Smith
Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Managing Editor of Sundress Publications. Her work has appeared in journals including Guernica, Crab Orchard...
View ArticleDinnerview: Gabrielle Grace Hogan
Gabrielle Grace Hogan is a poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Her work has been published by Sonora Review, Arcturus, Lavender Review, Ghost City Review, and others. In 2017, she won the Academy of...
View ArticleDinnerview: Monica Sok
Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, February 2020). Her work has been recognized with a...
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