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
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on August 5, 2020. — Melissa Valentine was born and raised in Oakland, CA. Her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, Jezebel, and Apogee among others. Valentine is a graduate of the MFA program at Mills College, and she is
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on July 14, 2020. — Marcia Trahan is the author of Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession. She earned a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Vermont and a
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on June 16, 2020. — Meredith Talusan is an award-winning transgender author, journalist, and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The American Prospect, BuzzFeed, and Vice. She is the founding
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.Published on May 20, 2020. — Sasha Geffen is a writer based in Denver whose work appears in Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Nation, and others. Their first book, Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary, about the history of
Even a global pandemic won't stop Non-Fiction by Non-Men! I took this month off so my brilliant former GrubStreet student, Céillie Clark-Keane, could interview the incredible Sinéad Gleeson. Hopefully this great conversation will take your mind off COVID-19 for at least a