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Editor’s Note: The following is an edited transcription of a larger Zoom interview, available in-full below. Kevin D. Jordan reads from his story, “The Forest as Witness” (Volume 67, issue 3), from 9:08–12:00. Tell us about yourself and your relationship to writing. It’s been a long and gradual road for me. In . . .

Sami al-Ajrami, author of The Keys to My House: A Gaza Diary On October 20, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. in the UMass Honors College events hall, I’ll be hosting a presentation by co-author Anna Lombardi (in person) and author Sami al-Ajrami (via Zoom) of the latter’s The Keys to My House: A . . .

Ted Plantos Memorial Award photo with judge John B. Lee, 2005. Tell us about your relationship to translation, specifically between Chinese and English translation. From a very young age, I felt that I did not quite belong, I became independent, sometimes a little wild. In middle school, I began writing martial arts . . .