Susan Straight, Author
Photo: Skye Moorhead I recently interviewed Susan Straight on the telephone. During the first session, my recording software failed just as my two-year-old son woke up howling from an unusually short...
View ArticleKerry Madden-Lunsford, Author
Photo: Manuel Ruiz Kerry Madden-Lunsford grew up traveling around the South as the daughter of a football coach. Her first novel, Offsides, drew on her experiences, but is not an autobiography. She is...
View ArticleAllison Joseph, Poet
Photo: Rusty Bailey Allison Joseph is the author of six poetry books: What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh...
View ArticleNick Flynn, Author
Photo: Dion Ogust When I spoke with Nick Flynn, it was a Sunday afternoon in late May. Hot, humid, and there is no better way to say this—it was loud. The kind of loud that reminds you life is loud and...
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