Interviews

Marcus Jackson shares how poetry and photography intersect for him and tells the story behind one of the photographs in our issue.

Danni Quintos interviews Anni Liu about her debut collection, Border Vista, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, released April 12!

Anni Liu interviews Danni Quintos about her A. Poulin Jr. Prize–winning collection, Two Brown Dots, released today!

Drama Editor Brant Russell interviews playwright Ruth Tang, in a spreadsheet

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.