genre: Interviews

Interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell – THE WATERS

By Jaimee Wriston Colbert   

“Once upon a time, M’sauga Island was the place where desperate mothers abandoned baby girls and where young women went seeking to prevent babies altogether. But in living memory, Rose Cottage on the island was the home of the herbalist Hermine “Herself” Zook, who raised her three daughters there…” And so, begins the Prologue of

Interview with Susan Rich, Author of Blue Atlas

By Jennifer Martelli   

Susan Rich’s masterful collection, Blue Atlas, (Red Hen Press, April 2, 2024) is a physical and emotional travelogue through a “land of deferred decisions.” In this collection, the reader is taken on a journey from North America to Europe to Africa, from the “before and after,” with a speaker grounded in a decision made 30… Read more »


Interview with Robert Sergel

Interview with Robert Sergel

By Andrai Whitted   

Let’s start by discussing Spite, your contribution to this Summer’s issue of Solstice Lit mag. How many times did you walk by the O’Rielly Spite House before if formed the spark of a story? I walked by it most weekdays for several years (with my pals Rusty and Ruby), but didn’t really think to write… Read more »


Interview with Jennifer Boyden<br/> on her novel <em>the chief of rally tree</em>

Interview with Jennifer Boyden
on her novel the chief of rally tree

By Lee Hope   

Jennifer Boyden is also an award-winning poet, for instance of The Mouths of Grazing Things, Winner of the Brittingham Award in Poetry.  For her full bio, please go to Contributors, and for one of her poems, please go to the Poetry in this issue.   LEE: The emphasis of my conversation with you will be

Interview with <br/>Franklin Einspruch

Interview with
Franklin Einspruch

By Andrai Whitted   

  Q: To start, congratulations on your Fulbright award for this coming spring 2019 in Austria. What can you tell our readers about your upcoming residency? A: There’s an entity called Q21, which is an umbrella organization for sixty alternative arts groups in Vienna. Q21 operates within the MuseumsQuartier, the cultural district that also includes