INTERVIEWS
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...
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.
2020 Contest: Interview with Poetry Judge Paul Tran
Paul Tran is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere, including the Netflix movie Love Beats...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Poetry Editor, Kelsey Nuttall
I’m looking for humor and play and lyricism. I’m looking to be surprised, I’m looking to be taught.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Art & Design Editor, Lanessa Salvatore
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.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Managing Editor, Josh Brandon
To me, experimental writing is writing that doesn’t engage/intersect with the western gaze. Work that foregrounds other cultures/other ways of “seeing” are exciting and right up my alley.