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.”
CNN
CNN speaks with Bryan Doerries about Theater of War’s The Suppliants, featuring a chorus of Ukrainian citizens discussing the war.
The Atlantic
Read Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s story “A Substitution” & perspective on the performance of fiction: “There’s no one the fiction writer can hide behind.”
Elle
Shelf Life with Elizabeth Acevedo: the author of Clap When You Land and Inheritance takes Elle’s literary survey.
WBUR
After Uvalde school shooting, minister and author Danté Stewart says to protect your humanity in grief, listen here.
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.
Publishers Weekly
Check out this Q&A with acclaimed poet and educator Taylor Mali.
The Guardian
An interview with Deesha Philyaw: “‘I wanted to challenge the church’s obsession with sex.”
Harvard Review
An interview with Casey Plett about A Dream of a Woman and how she approaches the craft of writing a love story.