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10 Questions for Michael Deagler

December 18, 2017 - By Abby MacGregor

“I sipped my ice water like a martyr. The ballast to all of it, of course—the thing that kept me from contentment—was envy. I was jealous of everybody, for everything. I was jealous of the couple for their house, their jobs, their drinks, each other. I was jealous of Bors for his skills, his apartment, his confidence to get controversial tattoos and play contro­versial songs. I was jealous of Lilah for her tired, lived-in life, which at least suggested a sort of thick-skinned competence.”
—from “Pat’s, Geno’s”, Fall 2017 (Volume 58, Issue 3)

10 Questions for Elizabeth O'Brien

December 11, 2017 - By Abby MacGregor

You fuss in the hospital
bed one vein sharp
across your forehead
is a rill. . . .
—from “What Color”, Fall 2017 (Volume 58, Issue 3)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember—I remember writing a poem about the sun when I was in the first grade that my teacher wrote on poster paper and posted in the hall outside our classroom....

10 Questions for Jacqueline Schaalje

December 5, 2017 - By Kira Archibald, Alex Raz

"Her father handed her to us. “No kiss,” he said, a few times. “No touch.” The diminutive old man, bent from hard work, gave his daughter a stern look that I couldn’t quite decipher except that it made me vaguely uncomfortable. However, the promise of no kissing was easy to give. “No kissing and no touching,” I said solemnly. I gave the man a cash advance and said we’d start filming in another ten days. We would...

10 Questions for John Sibley Williams

November 27, 2017 - By Elizabeth Mikesch

Almost immaterial
                             in the way of paper

animals folded fireside — haloed and almost-
burning,            a branch of sun lit starlings. . .
—from "CLosure" (Volume 58, Issue 3, Fall 2017)
 

10 Questions for Jenn Dean

November 21, 2017 - By Emily Wojcik

"We pored over several more boxes, then I followed her into a windowless chilled room lined with open metal trays that pulled out of the wall, like trays at a bakery. Instead of pastries, the trays held dozens of 'skins'—birds preserved for study, their soft organs removed. To say that my spirit lifted might sound odd, but the beauty of the dead can awe as much as the living." 
—from Keepers of the Ghost Bird (Working Title 2.4 Setpember/October 2017)
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