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“I have simple needs and simple understandings.” Interview with Sophia Terazawa, author of “de Clérambault”

by Chinaecherem Obor | May 11, 2025 | Contest Winners, Interviews | 0 Comments

In a new conversation, Black Warrior Review's Editor-in-Chief, Chinaecherem Obor speaks with Sophia Terazawa about non-linear time, past lives and past loves, rituals, vengeance, and getting scammed out of $777.77 by witches in an Appalachian town. Sophia's intriguing...

Special Online Feature: “de Clérambault” by Sophia Terazawa, 2024 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up

by Chinaecherem Obor | May 10, 2025 | Contest Winners, Feature, Online Edition | 0 Comments

Sophia Terazawa Runner-up, 2024 BWR Nonfiction Contest“de Clérambault” is a piecing together of beautiful poem-threads into a jarring love story through anaphora and ever-telescoping intimacies. I admire the inter-ness of this form and the ways the reader is let into...

“…time as a kind of language … allows me to organize the logic of a story.”: An Interview with Shastri Akella, author of “Reva Speaks a New Dialect”

by Chinaecherem Obor | April 29, 2025 | Contest Winners, Interviews, News, Online Edition | 0 Comments

Shastri Akella (he/they) is a queer migrant of color who is neurodivergent and comes from a working class background. Their debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published in 2023 by Flatiron Books (USA) and Penguin (India). It is a queer bildungsroman set in 90s India....

Special Online Feature: “Reva Speaks a New Dialect” by Fiction Contest Runner-up, Shastri Akella

by Chinaecherem Obor | April 24, 2025 | Archive, Feature | 0 Comments

Reva Speaks a New Dialectby Shastri AkellaBWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-upReva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...

“I very much hope to become some kind of fungus or moss when I die…” An Interview with Mariah Gese, Author of “Mold Vincit Omnia”

by Chinaecherem Obor | April 24, 2025 | Interviews, News, Nonfiction Print | 0 Comments

"I very much hope to become some kind of fungus or moss when I die..." An Interview with Mariah Gese, Author of "Mold Vincit Omnia" Mariah Gese is an artist and writer from a haunted swamp in New York. They received their MFA from Indiana University, where they were...