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An Interview with Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn, author of Loose of Earth

April 12, 2024 | blog, interviews
Having grown up in the rural Bible Belt of the South as a homeschooler, I (Suz Guthmann, MFA ’25) connected deeply with Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir, Loose of Earth. Recounting her childhood in Lubbock, Texas, Blackburn brings to the light her experience of faith healings, forever chemicals, and religiously driven homeschooling. At its core, Loose...

An Interview with Chachi Hauser, author of It’s fun to be a person I don’t know

October 31, 2023 | blog, interviews
Being a Disney enthusiast and once a Cast Member at Walt Disney World, Campbell Sullivan (MFA ’24) was overjoyed to learn that this book existed. A book of personal creative nonfiction essays that interweave stories of love, loss, “disneyfication,” familial history, legacy, gender identity, place, and a personal tie to one of the founders of the Disney Corporation, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know sits with the reader long after the book is closed.

Catching Up with 2023 Fiction Prize Winner Mengyin Lin

October 26, 2023 | blog, interviews
Born and raised in Beijing, Mengyin Lin is a Chinese writer living in the U.S. Mandarin is her mother tongue and she writes in English as her second language. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College where she won the Himan Brown Award and a BFA in Film from New York University. Her...

Catching Up with 2023 Nonfiction Prize Winner Donna Steiner

October 26, 2023 | blog, interviews
Donna Steiner’s poetry chapbook, Part Horror, Part Magic, Holy Ourselves, was published by Thornwillow Press. Lost and Found in Ocean County, New Jersey, a chapbook of essays, was published by Tolsun Books, and Elements, a chapbook of essays, was released by Sweet Publications. Other work has been published in literary journals including The Sun, River Teeth, Radar Poetry, Under the Gum...

Catching Up With 2023 Poetry Prize Winner Lance Larsen

October 26, 2023 | blog, interviews
Lance Larsen’s most recent poetry collection is What the Body Knows (Tampa 2018). His poems have appeared in Southern Review, APR, River Styx, Ploughshares, Poetry, New York Review of Books, Best American Poetry 2009, and elsewhere. His awards include a Pushcart Prize and an NEA fellowship. He teaches at BYU and fools around with aphorisms: “Gesundheit!-as...

Kangkang Kovacs Interviews Shubha Sunder, author of Boomtown Girl

April 4, 2023 | blog, interviews
KK: Almost every story in this collection happens in Bangalore, and several stories deal with change. As a reader, I often get a sense of confusion and hurt juxtaposed with nostalgia. Tell us a little more about how you feel about Bangalore, its development, and the clash of generations as the writer. SS: I was...

Catching Up with 2022 Fiction Prize Winner A.J. Rodriguez

January 18, 2023 | blog, interviews
A.J. Rodriguez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the University of Oregon, where he was the recipient of the Logsdon Fiction Award. He is the winner of Fractured Lit’s Anthology Prize, the Gival Press Short Story Award, and CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest. His work...

Catching Up with 2022 Nonfiction Prize Winner Courtney Kersten

January 10, 2023 | Awards, blog
Courtey Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays have been published in River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals, and have been awarded the Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award, the Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Award in Creative Nonfiction, and been...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Jung Hae Chae

October 26, 2021 | blog, interviews
Jung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer. She is winner of the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest in Nonfiction from Ploughshares. Her work has appeared (or will soon) in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and has been included in the Pushcart Prize collection. She is currently at work on a memoir that examines...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Mary Clark

October 26, 2021 | blog, interviews
Mary Clark grew up in Baltimore and after many years of living in Massachusetts, returned to her roots to write novels. She earned an MFA in Poetry from The University of Iowa. Her poems and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Fiction, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and will appear in J Journal: New Writing...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Dawn D'Aries

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Dawn D’Aries was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. “The Super’s Wife” represents parts pulled together from a full-length work of creative nonfiction. As an editor and journalist, she has written on a variety of news and feature topics, and counts The Rumpus among her most recent creative nonfiction credits....

Catching Up with 2020 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winner Daniel Schonning

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Daniel Schonning is the poetry winner of the 2020 Crazyhorse Prizes contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Guesthouse, and elsewhere. He studies and teaches in Colorado, where he is currently working on a book of abecedarians. CH: How would you describe yourself as both a person and...