Ten Questions

“Now, though, years have passed, and I do have more peace about my past and my process. From afar, I can finally see what I was doing, and why.” — Jay Baron Nicorvo, author of Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir 

“I’d love to be the kind of writer who sits down at my desk at a specific and predictable time...and write, but I’ve never been that writer. —torrin a greathouse, author of DEED.

“I treat my life as fodder for literature, so I consider living it (surviving it) as part of writing.” —Ismet Prcic, author of Unspeakable Home

“I wanted to write a book that had the potential to both delight and terrify Philip Roth.” —Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of Catalina

“It seems like a necessary step to figure out how to emerge from mess to order.” —Ayşegül Savaş, author of The Anthropologists

“If one poem broke your heart, my next poem should uplift you.” —Tara M. Stringfellow, author of Magic Enuff

“Writing is solitary, but you are not alone.” —Evan Dalton Smith, author of Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father’s Journey

“Sometimes it’s better to lean into your strengths instead of trying to make up for your weaknesses.” —Melissa Mogollon, author of Oye

“I consider notetaking to be an integral form of the writing process.” —Dorothy Chan, author of Return of the Chinese Femme

“I think the arc of writing a poem is similar to the experience of ascending and descending physical terrain.” —Callie Siskel, author of Two Minds