Ten Questions for Terra Trevor
“Listen deeper. Dream bigger.” —Terra Trevor, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways
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“Listen deeper. Dream bigger.” —Terra Trevor, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways
The author of the novel The Covenant of Water discusses the interplay between his work as a writer and his work as a physician, the epic novel as a vessel for storytelling, and geography as character.
“You write one poem precisely so that you can write the next.” —Emily Lee Luan, author of 回 / Return
“I have to fight for every word, then fight to let them go.” —Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World
“Your voice is your voice. Your voice. No one else’s.” —Dean Rader, author of Before the Borderless: Dialogues With the Art of Cy Twombly
A poet shares how she builds a life around her writing in rural Wisconsin, where literary community takes surprising—and sometimes amusing—forms. She finds both struggle and abundance in her chosen path.
“Everything you are afraid of will be surpassed by desires you cannot yet imagine.” —Elizabeth Metzger, Lying In
“I had to not only transform into different people and places, but to also find myself within both of those.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women
The authors of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing engage in a dialogue about textual doneness.
“You will never get rid of the self-critical voice in your head.” —Colin Winnette, author of Users