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Jessica (J.L.) Powers is the author of the recently released coming-of-age story set in South Africa, This Thing Called the Future (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011) and The Confessional (Knopf, 2007). She is

Russell Scott Valentino is an editor, translator, and scholar based in Iowa City, Iowa. He has published eight books and numerous essays and short translations of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from Italian,

Of course, no one can answer, “What inspires you to write?” It depends on the thing one is writing. So, what conditions create the writing of today? In my mind, these conditions

Beth Staples received her MFA in fiction from Arizona State University in 2007, and joined the Piper Center for Creative Writing staff as Managing Editor after graduation. She runs the Center’s three

Mary Scherpe and Benjamin Richter founded the blog Stil in Berlin in March 2006, and though they thought it was a late bloomer in terms of streetstyle blogging, being inspired by, e.g. terrific

Darren Jackson is the Editor of Grist: The Journal for Writers (on Facebook). A doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, he has had fellowships at VCCA in France and Virginia and was

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYU4rlwmA&w=640&h=390] I’ve been thinking about this promised art-apocalypse that feels like it’s never going to come. I remember hearing, in eloquent and well-argued statements, that the recession was going to wipe

Photo by Danielle Levitt If you’ve never heard of Alexis Blair Penney, you probably shouldn’t admit that. I met him about a year ago and have been thinking about it ever since.

Photo by Margaret Kimball Just in case the internet dies, print copies of Sonora Reviews #58 and #59 are now for sale at the following bookstores: #59 Atalantas 38 Main Street, Bisbee,

Kelly Davio serves as Managing Editor at The Los Angeles Review and reads poetry for Fifth Wednesday Journal. She is the author of Burn This House, forthcoming from Red Hen Press (2013). She is a three-time Pushcart nominee