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 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 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
I was so sad to hear this morning about the death of Jason Polan. I didn’t know Jason Polan personally, but his art and Instagram presence (@jasonpolan) made my life better. His drawings are deceptively simple but full of humor
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on October 22, 2019. — Cameron Dezen Hammon’s writing has appeared in Ecotone, The Rumpus, The Literary Review, The Houston Chronicle, and elsewhere. Her essay “Infirmary Music” was named a notable in The Best American Essays
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on September 24, 2019. — T Kira Madden is a lesbian APIA writer, photographer, and amateur magician living in New York City. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and serves
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on June 28, 2019. — Audrey Murray is a redhead from Boston who moved to China and became a standup comedian. The co-founder of Kung Fu Komedy, Audrey was named the funniest person in
Shout out and major THANK YOU to Erin Greene who made this interview possible thanks to her CITYterm connections! For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on May 14, 2019. — Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on November 19, 2018. — Dessa is a singer, rapper, writer, and proud member of the Doomtree hip-hop crew. She is the author of My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love,