Issue 3.2 Contributor Interviews

Sarah Abbott

“As I wrote the essay, there were certain stories that stuck out to me. I didn’t plan what to include or what not to include, just chose as I went along.”

Nandini Dhar

“As a poet, I have to figure out my relationship to this language. And maybe this figuring out of the relationship is also the space where my own language is born.”

Michael Lauchlan

“In our closest relationships, we only partially understand each other. We construct inner images that are (hopefully) somewhat related to the mysterious reality.”

Grace Mattern

“Deep loss makes life seem unreal and unimaginable. Reading good writing about grief can remind us we’re not alone and that others have preceded us in making life real again and imagining themselves in to a future. That’s where I headed in writing the truth about death.”

Leslie Maxwell

“For me, I scrambled to try to get back in the same orbit I had been in before my mother died, and it took me a long time to realize I wouldn’t necessarily be able to get back.”

Anthony J. Mohr

“As I worked, the images lit up inside me and the dialogue crackled back to life, definite indications that what I put on the page is what happened.”

Laura Tansley

“My father always said ‘do as I say not as I do’ but I still developed the same love of beer and biscuits despite his warnings.”