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Visible Worlds : An Interview With Invisible Publishing’s Leigh Nash

Visible Worlds : An Interview With Invisible Publishing’s Leigh Nash

Originally founded by Robbie MacGregor, Megan Fildes and Nic Boshart, Invisible Publishing released its first fiction titles in Spring 2007, and “has come to include works of graphic fiction and non-fiction, pop culture biographies, experimental poetry, and prose.” Formerly the managing editor at Coach House Books, Leigh Nash joined the Invisible’s board in 2015.

It Never Rains on National Day: an interview with writer Jeremy Tiang

It Never Rains on National Day: an interview with writer Jeremy Tiang

  Jeremy Tiang is a fiction writer, playwright, and translator from Singapore. His short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was published by Epigram Books in 2015, and is available at Epigram Books’ website. He lives in Brooklyn and was recently featured in the Singapore Writers Festival. We caught up in an email interview. Xin…

Artistry is a Kind of Citizenship – Ploughshares Interviews Allan Gurganus

Artistry is a Kind of Citizenship – Ploughshares Interviews Allan Gurganus

I’ve been aware of Allan Gurganus since I was a few years old; we hail from the same small town, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and his books lined the shelves of homes I visited, and the local library. Turns out his name was also in the New Yorker, and when I was nine, his book…

“So that the poem is an act of discovery”: An Interview with Brian Komei Dempster
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“So that the poem is an act of discovery”: An Interview with Brian Komei Dempster

Brian Komei Dempster received the 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry for his debut collection, Topaz (Four Way Books, 2013), which examines the experiences of a Japanese American family separated and incarcerated in American World War II prison camps. Through their interwoven narratives, his poems show us how the past never ends: it shapes and is…