INTERVIEWS
2013 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Hannah Aizenman
Hannah Aizenman hails from Birmingham, AL, and received her BA from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Gigantic Sequins, plain china, Three Rivers Review, and Collision Literary Magazine. She is currently...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Winner Mari Christmas
Mari Christmas is pursuing an MFA at the University of Notre Dame. Her fiction has appeared in The Canary Press and Paragraphiti. Interview by JAKE KINSTLER Black Warrior Review: While explaining his reasoning for choosing your story as our fiction contest winner,...
An Interview with Jessica Hollander, Author of IN THESE TIMES THE HOME IS A TIRED PLACE
Jessica Hollander is the recipient of the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction. Interview by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI Jessica Hollander's debut collection In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place draws us into the lives of mothers, wives, and daughters, as...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Meredith Clark
Meredith Clark is a poet and essayist living in Seattle. She is the author of two chapbooks, Residence and Land, published through the Dusie Kollektiv, and has been an artist in residence at The Vermont Studio Center and Art Farm. She holds a BA in creative writing...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Jenny Boully
Interview by LEIA PENINA WILSON Black Warrior Review: If you were to be trapped/stuck/magically transported (or synonym of choice) in a fairytale, which fairytale would it be? I’m always irrationally afraid I’ll be transported (you know because of magic) into some...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Kate Durbin
Interview by ANNE BRETTELL Black Warrior Review: What was it that initially got you interested in poetry? What aspect of "the poem" grabbed you as an art form? Kate Durbin: I can think of two instances in which poetry grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let go. One...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Brian Evenson
Interview by JAKE KINSTLER Black Warrior Review: Both Fugue State and your new book Windeye are self-contained and complete works interested in (it seems to me) how story collections can function as a singular artistic work. In Fugue State, there are repeated themes...
An Interview with Joanna Klink
Interview by AB GORHAM Black Warrior Review: Joanna, often, in grad school, we’re (students) reminded to keep our audience in mind while composing, revising, reciting our work. Can you identify your audience, as in, do you have a particular reader in mind when you...
2012 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Mary Caponegro
Interview by DARA EWING What I love about Mary Caponegro is her delight in scenes or moments that might pass unnoticed had she not slowed them down, zoomed in, and provided them with the attention they never knew they deserved. She admits that fabulist writing is the...
Contest 2012: An Interview with Poetry Judge Sabrina Orah Mark
Interview by LAURA KOCHMAN I am so excited, because Sabrina Orah Mark is our poetry contest judge this year. You should probably be excited, too--she's the author of The Babies and Tsim Tsum, both from Saturnalia Books, and you can find her work in Best American...