Ten Questions for Cintia Santana
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
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“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 Wine People offers an exercise in getting to know your characters.
“Just keep listening to the work, one poem at a time.” —Heather Lanier, author of Psalms of Unknowing
The author of Wine People considers how a more expansive understanding of setting can deepen a story.
“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions
“I think that’s so much of the pleasure of writing for me, the opportunity to be fearless on the page.” —Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
“Don’t trap yourself into false models of production and worth.” —Edgar Kunz, author of Fixer
The author of Rachel to the Rescue and Ms. Demeanor explores the risky business of fictionalizing public figures.
“Read more than you write.” —Robyn Schiff, author of Information Desk: An Epic
“I love when a poem is getting there, when I can’t stop coming back to it.” —Alise Alousi, author of What to Count