The Lives of Writers

Michael talks with Colleen Kinder about living in several different countries, navigating new environments with a toddler, the roots of her love of reading, writing, and travel, the genesis of Off As…

Michael talks with Diane Exavier about growing up and living in Flatbush, playwriting and participatory theater, writing through grief and about family, books as events, poems as integers, and why he…

Michael talks with Travis Cravey about his foot getting run over and then starting to write, his flash fiction collection MANIFOLD, parachute stories, his first car and his current car, authenticity …

Michael talks with Mike Nagel about getting into literature and writing, acknowledging artifice in an essay, accessing literature's unique qualities, the very first Autofocus book DUPLEX, turning the…

Michael talks with Zac Smith about burning out on linguistics, getting into writing, writing in collaboration, his poetry collection 50 BARN POEMS, poems as jokes/jokes as poems, his story collection…

Michael talks with Francesca Kritikos about refinding an identity in the daily grind, her forthcoming collection Exercise in Desire, the influence of pop music, punctuation, short vs. long poems, wri…

Michael talks with Chris Gonzalez about early reading and writing experiences, his story collection I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT, narrators and characters in the same world, determining POV, orderi…

Michael talks with Sebastian Castillo about having fun writing, impatience as a reader, first person, his books, form as plot, blurring the personal and fictional, modification as a digital writing p…

Michael talks with Sarah Minor about her visual and installation art, her collection of visual essays Bright Archive (Rescue Press), the process of making mixed media literature, her newest book Slim…

Michael talks with Jim Reese about teaching writing at a prison, teaching writing at a college, the midwest, his first collection of essays Bone Chalk,  the ways working in poetry previously helped o…

Michael talks with Brain Oliu about his path to writing, pro wrestling storytelling, the process of writing Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling, confession in creative non-f…

Michael talks with Meghan Phillips about bringing her first chapbook into the world, crafting a voice at the sentence level, pens & notebooks, the daunting task of novel writing, reading as a comfort…

Michael talks with Sari Fordham about growing up in Uganda as an Adventist during a human rights crisis, environmental activism and reacting to climate change, getting to know her late mother through…

Michael talks with Tope Folarin about his first trip back to Salt Lake City in 27 years, decolonizing art, the whiteness of autofiction in the critical sphere, directing The Institute of Policy Studi…

Michael talks with Kara Vernor about animals, coffee, mugs, writing flash, writing from and not from the personal, first vs. third person narrators, drafting and revision based on genre, and more.

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Michael talks with Selah Saterstrom about initiations into the medium of language and the study of creative writing, divinatory poetics and the writing process, her recent book Rancher (Burrow Press)…

Michael talks with Avni Vyas about building an endurance for joy, the path to her first solo poetry collection, the presence of a father who passed, drafting ambidextrously, handwriting, speakers of …

Michael talks with Betsy Bonner about being a poet by default, her memoir The Book of Atlantis Black (Tin House Books), writing about family and the mystery of a missing sister, collaging her sister'…

Michael talks with Michael Seidlinger about his path to writing, a love of horror, video games, his former press Civil Coping Mechanisms, his new book RUNAWAYS (Future Tense Books), the bonkers and b…

Michael talks with Jen Winston about launching their first book of essays, upkeeping a popular social media account, unlearning, bisexuality, writing a book on a tight deadline, incorporating differe…