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 Chicago Review of Books.Published on March 9, 2021. — I had the best time talking with Forsyth Harmon about her cats (living and dead), writing vs. drawing, 90s aesthetics, and her new illustrated novel Justine! The
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
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on January 12, 2021. — Sarah Mirk is a graphic journalist, editor, teacher, zine-maker, and illustrator whose comics have been featured in The Nib, The New Yorker, Bitch, and NPR. Mirk is currently a contributing editor at The Nib, where she writes
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on December 9, 2020. — E. Dolores Johnson is the author of Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love. She was born in Buffalo, New York and has earned degrees from Howard University
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on November 17, 2020. — Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the memoir Mean, a New York Times editors’ choice. O, The Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on October 8, 2020. — Amy Kurzweil is a writer and cartoonist. Her cartoons, comics, and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, New Yorker Daily Shouts, The Believer, The Toast, Spiralbound and Longreads, among others. She is the author of
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on September 15, 2020. — Sara Faith Alterman is the author of Let’s Never Talk About This Again: A Memoir. She’s written for The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and The Boston Globe, as well as the anthologies Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About