For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on October 6, 2021. — Pardis Mahdavi is the author of Hyphen, part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. Mahdavi is currently Dean of Social Sciences and Director of the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU).
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on September 14, 2021. — Bonnie Tsui was born in Queens, New York, and raised on Long Island. She is the author of American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, winner of the 2009-2010 Asian/Pacific
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on August 11, 2021. — Anna Qu is a Chinese American writer and the author of the memoir Made in China: A Memoir of Love & Labor. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on July 13, 2021. — Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on June 23, 2021. — Leslie Brody is a creative writing professor, playwright, and biographer. She is the author of Irrepressible, her biography of Jessica Mitford, and Sometimes You Have to Lie, her biography of Louise Fitzhugh, author of Harriet
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on May 13, 2021. — Lilly Dancyger is the editor of Burn It Down, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press, and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir selected
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on April 19, 2021. — Elissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of My Body Is a Book of Rulesand Starvation Mode, and her book White Magic is
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on March 10, 2021. — Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart and the essay collections Abandon Me and Girlhood. She also has a craft book forthcoming from Catapult in 2022. Febos was the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Córdova
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on February 16, 2021. — Koa Beck is the author of White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind . Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s
The first Wellesley Writes It interview of 2021 is up now on Wellesley Underground! Sumita Chakraborty is a poet, essayist, scholar, and a graduate of Wellesley College, class of 2008. Her debut collection of poetry, Arrow, was released in September 2020 with Alice James