Associate Editor Blessing Christopher: Uche Okonkwo’s reading at the University of Cincinnati will be held on October 1, 2026. Before her visit, I reached out to the author to discuss her debut short story collection, A Kind of Madness, published by Tin House Books in 2024. BC: Thanks for the opportunity to chat with you …
On Thursday, September 10, 2026, The Visiting Writers Series returns for the 2026-27 academic year. Afsheen Farhadi, a former UC creative writing PhD student, is one of the featured readers. I emailed Farhadi a question about his debut novel, False Prophet (2026, Melville House). Prince Bush: In your debut, the protagonist, Jal, writes a memoir …
Rose Zinnia: Hi Rob! Thanks so much for taking the time to do an interview with me about your now one-year-old, award-winning, debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025)! HC architecturally reimagines the book-as-medium’s possibility and pushes the boundaries of it provocatively and generatively via access symbols, image descriptions, places to pause or rest …
Summer Assistant Editor Arah Ko: I was thrilled to read CR editorial veteran Lisa Low’s debut full-length poetry collection Replica, the Editors’ Selection for the Wisconsin Poetry Series, released in March 2026. Hailed as a “lyrical reckoning,” this book caught my eye immediately. In celebration of the book launch, I asked Low about her poetics and …
Eric Weiskott interviews poet Victoria Chang on trees, artists, and writing for oneself.
Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: As Andy and I conclude our graduate assistantships here at CR, we had the opportunity to ask one another some questions and reflect on our experiences. We spoke about editorial philosophies, the work we accomplished together, and words of wisdom for the next cohort. We enjoyed our conversation. We hope you …
Ahead of their reading in Cincinnati on April 23, we chatted with Kathryn Cowles and Donald Revell
In her debut memoir-in-essays, Raised by Ferns, award-winning author Maya Jewell Zeller weaves rich stories of her nontraditional upbringing, the roots of her creativity, and the sources of her strength. The Cincinnati Review says Jewell Zeller’s voice, “both vulnerable and unflinching, carries a lyric precision attuned to the smallest details of time and place, yet …
Joyelle McSweeney on style, grief, and the necropastoral.
Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a collection of surreal stories full of haunted landscapes, literary experiments, and essays on the relationship between art and fiction. In this conversation, Mialise Carney and Danielle Dutton discuss the prairie as a site of dislocation, the process of collecting literary dresses, and how writing could be played …
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