I really wanted to talk about my abuela and her journey to this country. She really did travel across the border in order to find my abuelo. This is as much her story as it is mine.
Read MoreInterview with Author Tre Harris Salas
Fantasy was a type of art that I saw as limitless, where I could explore and develop my art as well as use it to play with friends, drawing their characters and the monsters they encountered.
Read MoreInterview with Artist Robson Michel
While this story isn’t set in Guatemala specifically—it’s a story about many, many regimes—it’s inextricable from that context. The crime of disappearing someone is really killing them twice, erasing both them and the possibility of memorializing them.
Read MoreInterview with Author Alex Langer
A woman returns to the village she grew up in, promising its inhabitants salvation—and bringing them doom. Murtaza Mohsin's "The Flowering of Peace" pulls the reader along on Noor's quest for revenge, from fields of alien crops to the village square and back into the stars.
Read MoreInterview with Author Murtaza Mohsin
Many of the East Asian artists I’ve been admiring lately incorporate movement through background elements like flames, clouds, mountains, in ways that I find just breathtaking. With my own art, I want to instill that sense of levity and suspension, like the moment when a breath is drawn in and held, and so I try hard to do that in my compositions.
Read MoreInterview with Artist Dee Nguyen
Hollywood, land of vivid colors and a thousand glittering dreams. Anyone can be a star, even a laundry girl. Grace P. Fong's “The Toll of the Snake” digs in to the dark underside of show business and the cost of ambition.
Read MoreInterview with Author Grace P. Fong
All that got me thinking about words, friends, the feelings of stuck-ness that can settle in on you in a place, especially when you’re young, and what might happen if you started thinking about words, friends, and magic alike being scattered. That’s where it started, and once the characters started to take shape, the story took shape around them.
Read MoreInterview with Author S.L. Harris
Basically, just play with the silent language of shapes and textures, picking some and letting go of others.
Read MoreInterview with Artist Lenka Šimečková
The tricky thing about discussing systemic flaws/shortcomings/violence is you’re trying to describe something that has been actively normalized and made invisible over generations.
Read MoreInterview with Author Coda Audeguy-Pegon