Author Interviews

Brian illuminates his prose-poetry style, his latest chapbook release along with his upcoming second, gives advice for young poets, life as grandson to the famous Italian poet Germoglino Saggio, and explains how Benito Mussolini was his grandfather's first editor.

Mark illuminates the Philippines spoken word poetry scene, life as a poetry organizer, submitting to international markets, a deep-dive into his poem "Loose Limits," and performance vs. traditional poetry.

Lisa illustrates her love of haibuns, the difficulty in generating poetry sales, current size of the SpecPo market, and using news headlines for inspiration.

Aeryn offers insight into death metal's value as a writing tool, keeping up your daily word count, seven stages to reacting to literary rejection, and developing a process for querying novel agents.

Rachel talks about her hosting of an Alaskan burlesque show, her job as librarian amid the US culture wars, writing for Tor.com, the need for writers to learn about the publishing and marketing side of the industry.

J.D. discusses his poetry editor experiences at Solarpunk Magazine, anime for positive male role models, themed magazine issues, SFPA's Eye of the Telescope, and utopian publishing amid a dystopian world.