Ten Questions

“Look for the agents and editors who share your vision for the work and trust them.” —Jennifer Savran Kelly, author of Endpapers

“I struggled with the urge to tame my voice.” —James W. Jennings, author of Wings of Red

“It’s okay for you to reveal more of yourself in your poetry.” —Subhaga Crystal Bacon

“Write toward what you want to discover.” —Jim Redmond, author of Because You Previously Liked or Played

“Have fun. Make friends.” —Curtis Chin, author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

“I felt that I knew the characters deeply after years of thinking about these stories.” —Shannon Sanders, author of Company

“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet

“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“Don’t trap yourself into false models of production and worth.” —Edgar Kunz, author of Fixer

“I love when a poem is getting there, when I can’t stop coming back to it.” —Alise Alousi, author of What to Count

“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood