Interviews

“The Past Is Not Always Past:” A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

This interview was first published online on July 13, 2017; we also featured iit n…

Firelei Báez on Generosity and Freedom in Art

I met Firelei Báez at The Andy Warhol Museum for over an hour. She was…

When Trying to Return Home: Interview with Jennifer Maritza McCauley

For many of us, home can be a complicated place. It is amorphous and, as…

STAY WILD: A conversation with poet and artist Jane Wong

As a woman of color in the academy, I do more labor than my white colleagues. But then I have guilt that my mother is laboring more than me. And I ask myself, “Was it worth it? Is it worth it?” In the fight, you have to remember to rest. 

THE PLANET COMMUNICATES: A conversation with Jhani Randhawa

“Poetry, language, feels like a practice—a study—of relation. For me, ecology is the root of all relation.” A conversation with Jhani Randhawa and their debut collection, TIME REGIME.

On the Silos of New York City: Angie Cruz and Stephanie Jimenez in Conversation

Angie Cruz meets with Stephanie Jimenez, author of They Could Have Named Her Anything to…

Trailblazing and For the Love of the Short Story: In Conversation with Kali Fajardo-Anstine

On October 2020 Kali Fajardo-Anstine visited the University of Pittsburgh as the winner of the…

Movements, Activism and Writing YA with Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, Lilliam Rivera and Natalia Sylvester

On August 28, 2020, Natalia Sylvester, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jennifer de Leon, and Lilliam Rivera joined…

We cannot afford to be silent: VIRAMONTES AND GAITSKILL in conversation

On November 11th 2016 Mary Gaitskill and Helena Viramontes shared a stage for the first…

Wayfinding: A Conversation with Chloë Bass

Chloë Bass’s Wayfinding is comprised of twenty-four site-specific sculptures at St. Nicholas Park, across from…