For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on March 19, 2018. — Ali Barthwell is a writer, comedian, teacher, Chicagoland native, and an alumna of Wellesley College. She was a recipient of the Puma/LOL Second City Diversity Scholarships in 2010. Barthwell also participated
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on February 14, 2018. (Happy Valentine's Day!) — Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, and Claire of
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on January 15, 2018. — Mandy Len Catron is the author of How To Fall In Love With Anyone: A Memoir in Essays. Originally from Appalachian Virginia, Catron now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her writing
Happy new year, devoted blog readers! While 2017 was a total disaster in a lot of ways, it was, at least for me, a great year for books. Here's the breakdown of what I read this past year, my top
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on September 13, 2017. — Samantha Irby is the writer behind the blog bitches gotta eat and the author of Meaty: Essays (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2013), New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (Vintage, 2017), and We Are
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on August 14, 2017. — Miranda K. Pennington is the author of A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work (Seal Press, 2017). Her work has appeared
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on July 12, 2017. — Scaachi Koul is a senior writer for Buzzfeed News. In addition to Buzzfeed, Koul’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on June 14, 2017. — Mary Mann is the author of Yawn: Adventures in Boredom. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on May 15, 2017. — Sarah Dickenson Snyder is poet based in Massachusetts and Vermont. She is the author of The Human Contract (Kelsay Books, 2017) and the chapbook Notes From A Nomad (Finishing Line
For the full essay, see it on The Rumpus. Originally published on May 9, 2017. — I woke up at 3 a.m. to pee the other night. This was not unusual. I like to drink tea before bed, and I usually wake up