Literary MagNet: Brittany Rogers
The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.
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Ten Questions for Melissa Rivero
“Writing kept me grounded, but it also reopened some wounds.” —Melissa Rivero, author of Flores and Miss Paula
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Ten Questions for Heather Lanier
“Just keep listening to the work, one poem at a time.” —Heather Lanier, author of Psalms of Unknowing
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Ten Questions for JoAnna Novak
“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
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Ten Questions for Elizabeth Metzger
“Everything you are afraid of will be surpassed by desires you cannot yet imagine.” —Elizabeth Metzger, Lying In
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Letting Go: How I Found an Agent After Giving Up
The author of Sing Something True recounts the path to writing the memoir she was afraid to write, grieving her identity as a writer after rejection, and finding solace (and representation) after shifting focus away from publication.
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Ten Questions for Christine Kandic Torres
“I wanted to write female friendship in a way that felt honest to me.” —Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
Three new anthologies, including The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
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Becoming a Mother-Writer: Notes on Reconciling the Personal, the Professional, and the Political
Advice on becoming a writer ignores the impact of motherhood—and fails to acknowledge the privileges of canonical writers. The author describes learning “to see art-making as a professional possibility” as a brown mother-writer.
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Ten Questions for Neel Patel
“This was the book I was meant to write my whole life.” —Neel Patel, author of Tell Me How to Be
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