#mini-interview

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IHLR: What is one issue you want the literary world to pay more or better attention to?

Faruqi: This is a no brainer: allow writers of color to have more voice, more presence...

My interview with fiction and nonfiction writer Saadia Faruqi is up now on the Iron Horse blog. This feature is the third installment in a series of short interviews with emerging writers of color, which explores the intersections between the literary, the cultural, and the activist in the contemporary landscape, in light of Best American Poetry 2015 and other moments of problematic representation, appropriation, or erasure.

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I’m conducting mini-interviews with emerging writers of color over at Iron Horse. I ask five brief but urgent questions and invite writers to respond with their briefest, most concise answers. First up—fiction writer and visual artist, Swati Khurana! 

For this installment, I focus on the Best American Poetry 2015/Michael Derrick Hudson awfulness from September in order to practice both political remembering and resistance. I also link to some of my favorite responses to the debacle (including writing by Jenny Zhang, Ken Chen, and Jane Wong). 

Swati Khurana’s answers are succinct and delightful and moving. I can’t wait to read her first novel. I hope you’ll take a look at this interview (click on the title of this post) and also spend some time with other recent additions to the Iron Horse blog: 

Mark L. Keats’s interview with novelist Casey Gray

Win, Place, Show: $12 or Less Writing Contests

Jessica Smith’s interview with poet David Trinidad

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FantasyCon Mini-Interview with Nadja Losbohm

FantasyCon Mini-Interview with Nadja Losbohm

Q – Are you a Reader, Author, Artist, or Blogger?

A – I’m an avid reader and author, who like to see herself as an artist.

Q – What is your favorite fantasy story or movie of all time, and why?

A – There are many great fantasy movies and stories, but my favorite one is “ A Neverending Story” by Michael Ende. I was a kid when I first saw the movie and still remember how fascinated I was. The…

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