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 Full Stop.Published on June 9, 2021. — I first learned about Vince Granata’s memoir Everything Is Fine through my friend who is friends with one of Vince’s friends, and when I hopped on the phone with Vince, we
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 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 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 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