Author Interviews

T.D. shares her love of shortwave radio and poetry radio shows, changing between publishers, applying programming skills to creating poetry, and adopting personas for different writing genres.

Jenna chats about the fiction reprint scene vs. academic writing, becoming poetry editor at Orion's Belt Magazine, detangling institutional structures to nurture decolonial justice, and ongoing culture wars at ASU.

Kathy Karch examines working as a science teacher and sci-fi author, SFWA mentorship, writing cycles, MFA experiences, extroverted writers, board games, Magic: The Gathering, SFF conventions, and Scrivener.

Noah chats about growing a substack past 5,000, political freelance writing, poetry and politics, upcoming collage poetry chapbooks, reusing old poems, and cultural marxism dog whistles

Ian details moving from the finance to writing industry, the creativity of game design vs. writing, using spreadsheets to help his submission process, and how dystopia is more realistic than ever in our world.

John chats about his love for noir and dark fiction, St. Louis, his YouTube video series featuring creepy poems, Halloween as breaking from identity, international publishing, and Barnes & Noble author events.