Ten Questions for Subhaga Crystal Bacon
“It’s okay for you to reveal more of yourself in your poetry.” —Subhaga Crystal Bacon
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“It’s okay for you to reveal more of yourself in your poetry.” —Subhaga Crystal Bacon
“Never assume the reader is not as intelligent as you are.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Vulnerables
The translator of Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses shares lessons from translation that can improve all creative prose.
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“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
The author of Wine People explores how conducting interviews can inform narratives and characters.
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
The author of The Museum of Human History discusses how the human mind and archetypal narratives informed her novel.
“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
“Finish the draft. Nothing else matters.” —Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe