Ten Questions

“I only write about the things that haunt me in some way.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Pajtim Statovci and David Hackston, the author and the translator of Bolla.

This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Mariana Oliver and Julia Sanches, the author and the translator of Migratory Birds.

“I will miss these characters living in my head.” —Monica West, author of Revival Season

“There are so many journeys I’d like to take” —Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides

“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse

“Do the hard stuff first.” —Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie

“Eventually, like a banner, the imagination unfurls itself.” —Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days

“I write four hours or one thousand words a day, whichever comes first.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Committed