Interviewing Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

“If you throw a small rubber ball into a smallish glass box, you will have something fabulous to watch! But if you throw that same rubber ball into field of tall grass you have only the first flight and the ball is gone. . . . The beauty of the container is you can use it to hold many things.”

Interviewing Elizabeth Genovise

“It is a very feminine process—long periods of quiet incubation, followed by a painful delivery (the production of the actual work). During those stretches of incubation, I’m reading constantly and filling notebooks with everything from stray images to little pieces of dialogue.”

Interviewing Sarah Kain Gutowski

“I loved reading as a child, and that’s why I started writing. I wanted to engage in the conversation, to be a part of the larger picture I saw emerging, particularly as I began to study literature in high school and college. I’ve always loved narrative.”

Interviewing Jack B. Bedell

“I do my best to stay open to life, to find the good in the day, so I am always receptive to poems life hands me. I am constantly taking notes toward poems and trying to organize my thoughts in that direction.”

Interviewing Megan Baxter

“I’ve learned to avoid feeling required to read things.”

Interviewing David Armand

“For me, almost all reading is pleasurable. And I can learn from it, even the bad stuff. But I particularly like long novels where I can spend weeks or even months with the characters—thinking about them throughout the day and looking forward to the next morning when I can spend time with them again.”

An Interview with Thomas V. Nguyen

“I am fortunate to constantly be traversing a line between science and poetry, and when I am feeling inadequate in one, I spend time with the other.” As part of Texas Review Press’s #TRPQA series, I recently had the wonderful experience of interviewing poet and medical student, Thomas V. Nguyen. Among other things, we discussed

Interviewing Dylan Fisher

“‘Is this gonna be a grain book or a heart book?’ Nonsense! Great books hit both—and hit hard.”