Southeast Review
An interview with Sun Yung Shin on spells, workings of empire, boxes in churches and in the brain.
The New Yorker
An interview with Jorie Graham on distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of the medium of poetry.
LARB
A conversation with Meet Us by the Roaring Sea author Akil Kumarasamy on pushing against the self in fiction.
Literary Matters
On writing, teaching, and defeating the “shitbird” of self-doubt in this conversation with Philip Schultz.
The Yale Review
Five questions with Jenny Xie on memory, migration, and poetry: “the poems [try] to thin the membrane between the living and the dead.”
Elle
Shelf Life with Elizabeth Acevedo: the author of Clap When You Land and Inheritance takes Elle’s literary survey.
LitHub
Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City, speaks with Jane Ciabattari on writing about the forgotten women in Mao’s inner circle.
NPR
Vanessa Hua speaks with NPR about Forbidden City, a novel about a teenage girl at the start of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Oprah Daily
Elizabeth Acevedo wants young women of color to be represented tenderly and with love.
The Guardian
An interview with Deesha Philyaw: “‘I wanted to challenge the church’s obsession with sex.”