INTERVIEWS
2012 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Maggie Nelson
Interview by BARRY GRASS Black Warrior Review's annual nonfiction contest might not be very old, but it's already established a tradition of being judged by the best names in literary nonfiction writing. Lia Purpura judged our inaugural nonfiction contest, and John...
An Interview with GC Waldrep
Interview by LISA TALLIN Black Warrior Review: So first of all I just wanted to ask you—you had a reading last night, and how do you feel reading your work out loud? GC Waldrep: How do I feel? I like to read my work out loud. I trained as a singer and the idea that...
An Interview with Noy Holland
Interview by JUAN CARLOS REYES Black Warrior Review: There is no particular way to get this started. I usually start with an icebreaker question… How are you enjoying Tuscaloosa so far? Noy Holland: It’s good. I met a lot of nice people. Yeah, I like the trees. I...
An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark
Interview by JUAN REYES Black Warrior Review: How does setting play into your writing? Sabrina Orah Mark: I generally like the sleepy towns, the quietness. I’m living in Athens, Georgia, now, which is filled with ghosts, so that becomes inspiring. I lived in Iowa City...
An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Interview by J. KIRK MAYNARD Joan Houlihan’s latest book of poems, The Us (Tupelo, 2009), revives the poet as storyteller with a tale of primitive tribesmen known as the “us,” surviving outside civilization. The story is told from the collective viewpoint of the Us,...
An Interview with Kathryn Davis
Interview by LAURENCE ROSS [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/6016467" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Black...
An Interview with David Young
Interview by JUAN REYES The first time I met him, David Young was sitting on a couch waiting for me, the last of his students, to arrive to class. He hosted a poetry class and curriculum that was all about exploring three international poets he had earlier translated...
An Interview with Dave Madden
Interview by ERIC PARKER Black Warrior Review: Let me ask the obvious question first, the one you’re probably tired of being asked: you wrote a collection of short stories for your Ph.D. dissertation, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and Other Stories, so how did you...
An Interview with Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr is the author, most recently, of The Transformation (2007), about colonialism, language politics, cultural geography, queer theory, the academy, and the effects of all these on three people who move between New York and Hawai‘i. Previous books...