Interview with Sophia Terazawa Author of de Clérambault, 2024 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up 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,...
Special Online Feature de Clérambault 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...
“…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” Shastri Akella (he/they) is a queer migrant of color who is neurodivergent and...
Reva Speaks a New Dialect by Shastri Akella BWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-up Reva 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” Mariah Gese is an artist and writer from a haunted swamp in New York. They received their MFA from Indiana...
