CHARLES YU is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on HBO’s Westworld and
Read MoreREBECCA VALLEY is a poet and editor from Saint Albans, Vermont. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Drizzle Review, a book review site with a focus on under-represented authors and books in
What interests you/draws you in? The story Chisme concerns a few people I knew in Parlier, the town in California I’m from. A man who lived in a rundown building next door
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I am drawn to writing and reading poetry in part because it allows me to look
ALLISON CAMPBELL lives in New Orleans. She earned her PhD in Literature, Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers where she served as associate editor of the Mississippi Review.
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I am turned on by enjambment and consequently the subtext it creates (especially when the subtext
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? My journey to the prose poem took many years to develop. When I was in the
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I came into fiction from a place of being a poet first and foremost, which has
What is it about the personal essay that interests you? Creative nonfiction is the art form of choice for the underdog. Only convicts and middle children have any business doing it, those
Laura McCullough’s The Wild Night Dress, selected by Billy Collins in the Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series, was published by University of Arkansas Press, 2017. Her other books of poems include Jersey Mercy,