Interviews

Drama Editor Brant Russell interviews Beth Hyland about genre considerations in her play All-One! The Dr. Bronner Play and about the future of theater.

An interview with Daniella Badra: “I wrote almost three hundred contrapuntals just with my sister. That’s all I wrote, almost every day, because I was obsessed and I was grief-ridden.”

An interview with Felicia Zamora. “Photography and poetry help me question human behavior in very distinct and unique ways; they both have lenses that swivel simultaneously outward and inward.”

An interview with Aditi Machado. “I tend to think I became a more interesting writer after, and while, translating Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia. There’s something about sinking into someone else’s—a different language’s—syntax and sonics that reorients your relationship to your chosen writing language(s).”

In playwright Tanya Everett’s A Dead Black Man, Everett gives voice to the idea of the dead black man, making him an essential character in the play. Thoroughly impressed and moved by Everett’s work, I’m grateful I had the opportunity to interview her in late May for The Cincinnati Review:

To learn more about the problems underlying disability tropes and metaphors, I turned to Emily Rose Cole, previous Cincinnati Review editorial assistant and current PhD candidate in English and Disability Studies at University of Cincinnati.

Associate Editor Molly Reid: We first had the pleasure of featuring Jolene McIlwain’s work in our miCRo series. Her story “Drumming” captures a tender moment in a diner between Dusty, who works behind the counter, and Elbert, a customer and former classmate. Because of the deft, subtle narrative maneuverings, these characters remain with the reader …

by José Angel Araguz Over the next few weeks, I plan to share interviews with #poetsofinstagram, that is, poets who have chosen the social media site Instagram as the forum to share their work. Interviews range from poets who work with erasure/blackout poetry and found poems, to poets who combine their own artwork with their …

We just got wind of this extraordinary interview on Popdose with CR contributor Steve De Jarnatt, whose story “Mulligan” (8.2) was selected for 2012’s New Stories from the Midwest. The interview begins: Not every creative professional can claim to have badgered Ringo Starr on network television, ushered the popular SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie onto …