interviews

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ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Rachael Severino

There’s a vibe or feeling I’m trying to get out of my brain and onto the page, and the characters and their problems spring up accordingly.

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Asya Yordanova

Often I caught myself having an idea, and then thinking “no, that's too weird, or too gross, or too dark.”

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Marco Mazzoni

The story behind this work is that unfortunately in Italy a woman is often considered complete only if she is a mother, and the choice not to have children is always considered a shortcoming.

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Cover Artist Silvia Moravčíková Bobeková

I love to create in such a way that the brushstrokes are clearly visible. I like when there is expression in a work of art.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Marie Croke

And the thing is, it’s always someone’s loved one, regardless of whether or not they're yours.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Stephen M.A.

My goal was to highlight this collision between a small town’s insistent internal mythology of removal, and an equally insistent external reality bearing down on us all.

ByBradley Powers

Interview with Artist Tom Edwards

I wanted to at least try and do my own thing, and here I am 9 years later. It was probably the best decision I’ve made in my career.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Sara S. Messenger

It felt like the details were forming a relay race, where the baton they were passing off to each other was the reader’s understanding. I had to keep adjusting the racers.

ByMarissa van Uden

Interview with Author Kanishk Tantia

“Those Left Behind” by Kanishk Tantia is a thoughtful, gentle story about both humans and machines navigating grief, love, and loss in their own ways. At its heart, it is also a coming-of-age story for a machine, if machines can…