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Amy Yelin

Amy Yelin is a communications professional and writer whose essays and author interviews have appeared in publications including The Boston Globe, Globe Magazine, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Her piece “Torn” (The Baltimore Review), received a notable essay mention in The Best American Essays 2007, and “The Memoirist” (Lunch Ticket) received a Pushcart nomination. She is also the recipient of awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, The Norman Mailer’s Colony and The Prague Summer program. She has an MFA with a focus in creative nonfiction from Lesley University and she teaches at Grub Street in Boston. Read more at YelinWords

By Amy Yelin

Interview with Michael Steinberg

by Amy Yelin

So happy to be interviewing you, Michael! Thank you for your commitment to Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices and supporting our annual nonfiction prize. What is it about Solstice that keeps you connected to the magazine all these years? The fact that the magazine has grown into one of the best literary journals out

Summer 2019

An Interview with Adriana Páramo

by Amy Yelin

Adriana Páramo is a cultural anthropologist, writer and women’s rights advocate. She is the author of Looking for Esperanza and “My Mother’s Funeral.” She teaches creative writing in the low-residency MFA program at Fairfield University and is an alumna of the travel writing workshop of VONA—Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation—a community of writers of color. At present,

Winter 2018

J.D. Scrimgeour Interview

by Amy Yelin

J.D. SCRIMGEOURauthor of Themes for English B: A Professor’s Education Interviewed by Amy YelinSolstice Assistant Nonfiction Editor Amy: You know that old chicken and egg question—I’m wondering what came first for you—writing poetry or prose? How does the writing process for one vs. the other differ for you? J.D.: Once, when I was five,

Winter 2016

The Mysterious Case of the Girl Gang Member

by Amy Yelin

Notes from a Self-Investigation Scene of the Crime: Kelly’s House Port Chester, New York 1979 They want me to take off my shirt. There are three of us: Me, Sally, Kelly. We are playing a game of truth or dare on the shag rug in Kelly’s basement, a spacious, brown-paneled room with a

Summer 2015

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