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 MoreWhat is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to the immediacy and rawness of poetry. I like getting caught up in the
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I write in all genres, and I’m often most interested in the similarities and differences between
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m most drawn to poems which are written for the ear and invite out-loud readings. I
THOMAS MIRA Y LOPEZ is the author of The Book of Resting Places (Counterpoint 2017). His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The American Scholar, and The Kenyon Review Online, among others. He is an editor
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? A lot of poetry can be stuck inside an echo chamber of self-admiration. That doesn’t interest
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? Fiction is just a quilt of all our own life experiences. It’s the truths we know
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? The way that words have heft and feel and how such heft and feel can be
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to how a poem is an act of compression — that is, how an
Winner of the Zone 3 First Book Award, CAIT WEISS ORCUTT’s work has been published in The Boston Review, Chautauqua, FIELD, Prelude, and more. The founder of the Writers Guild Community Creative
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? In a lot of ways poetry allows me to explain or investigate a phenomenon in ways