ISSUE 1.4 welcome issue contents contributors interviews our editors Issue 1.4 Contributor Interviews Jayne Benjulian“I am hungry for the scales to fall from my eyes, the fog from my ears, so that I may see and hear in a way I’ve never before seen and heard.” Ashley Bethard“… something really curious happens when we conjure the memory: we essentially rewrite it. Over time, that memory is destined to change.” Taylor Bostick“… research is one of my favorite parts of developing story. Or at least of revising it, I try not to let anything scare me away when I’m trying to get words down on a blank page.” Stephen Chusman“It turns out that the worlds [people] have in mind are often fairly small and select, compared to the historical and geographic expanses of all the poetry the world has given us.” Matthew Gavin Frank“Eventually, all narrative structures disintegrate in the face of this illusory Truth and fail, and it’s all the writer can do to faithfully represent the truth of this failure, and the wonderfully digressive journey toward said failure.” B.J. Hollars“For me, research is the reward for writing. It’s my opportunity to look beyond myself and find ways in which I—or my subject—might fit within the larger world.” Dave Madden“The lesson here is an old one: writing doesn’t get easier the better you think you are at it.” Sarah McCartt-Jackson“As a perpetual student of language, science, nature, and folklore, I am interested in the naming of things, and especially in precise naming.” Jon Michaud“I begin with something drawn from my life and then move it away from the source by adding fictional details until the story takes on a life of its own.” Brian Oliu“There’s a lot to be inspired by in the small moments of songs that when presented in a different format can be extremely poignant.” Sean Prentiss“So if you delve into my essays, stories, and poems enough, you’ll find re-tellings of stories, new angles, new forms because I’m not through telling these myths yet.” Anne Shaw“I am interested in the ways that text can be used in conjunction with space and materials to create an immersive, three-dimensional experience.” Erin Elizabeth Smith“I want readers to think about their own proclivities. About opening themselves to change. To trying something scary. To allow for more experiences.” Vanessa Stauffer“Of course, it’s not all Robin-Williams-standing-on-desks. It’s a serious demand on my time and my intellectual energy.”
