INTERVIEWS
“[A]t the intersection of many roads and seas”: An Interview with Rajiv Mohabir
Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of four books of poetry including Whale Aria (Four Way Books 2023) and Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Eric Hoffer Medal...
“I wrote a weird, little guy essay”: Sophie Ezzell on Creative Nonfiction, Nostalgia, and Prioritizing Kindness in Art
Sophie Ezzell is a queer Urban Appalachian writer. Her nonfiction has been nominated for multiple Pushcarts and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun, River Teeth, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and others. Sophie received her MFA from Oklahoma State...
“Joy and Some Flailing and Very Low Stakes”: A Conversation with Donika Kelly
DONIKA KELLY is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the...
2023 Contest: Interview with Poetry Judge Gary Soto
Gary Soto, born and raised in Fresno, California, is the author of thirteen poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Award and the National Book Award. His prose titles include Living Up the...
2023 Contest: Interview with Nonfiction Judge Jesse McCarthy
Jesse McCarthy is Assistant Professor in the departments of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of the essay collection, Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? winner of the 2022 Whiting Award for Nonfiction, and...
2023 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Michael Martone
Michael Martone’s newest books are Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana (2022) and The Complete Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne (2020). He has authored or edited over two dozen editions including recent books The Moon Over...
Meet the 2023 Editors: An Interview
Meet the 2023 Editors: An InterviewJeremy Rock / Managing EditorKatie DeLay / EditorSamantha Bolf / Fiction EditorPD Edgar / Art & Design EditorJavier Sandoval / Poetry EditorKanyinsola Olorunnisola / Nonfiction EditorEach year, the BWR staff turns over, so we...
2022 Contest: Interview with Poetry Judge Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss is the author of five books of poetry. Her most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021), winner of the PEN/Voelcker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and a finalist the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Everyone
BWRfeels more like my childhood home at 6:30 in the evening and during the middle of Summer, when the light would be coming in through the back porch in that sort of yellow orange tint, but my Grandmother had little crystalline structures that laced the edges of the windows and they’d scatter prisms across the hardwood, on the couch, the coffee table, the walls.
2021 Contest: Interview with Nonfiction Judge Su Cho
Su Cho is a poet and essayist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her essay “Cleaving Translation” won Sycamore Review’s Nonfiction Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work can be found in GEN Medium, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Poetry, Gulf...