Interviews

Crate Digging in the Freelance Files: An Interview with Sheila Maldonado

“This is, quite simply, material: someone was smart enough to keep it, so it could be sampled.”

Imagining into the Gaps: A Conversation with Gina María Balibrera

Debut novelist Gina María Balibrera, defines an “imagined history” as a “space where historical characters,…

On Breaking Harmful Cycles: A Conversation with Eve J. Chung

In Eve J. Chung’s debut novel, Daughters of Shandong, which follows a mother and her…

Nonproprietary Forms: Diana Khoi Nguyen and Angie Cruz in Conversation

In Fall 2023 I had the pleasure to speak to Diana Khoi Nguyen about her…

ALONE IN THE ROOM: A conversation with Elaine Hsieh Chou

Elaine Hsieh Chou speaks to us about her funny and insightful debut novel Disorientation, as…

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…