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2013 Contest: A Look Back at Poetry Winner Hannah Aizenman

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 15, 2014 | Feature, Poetry Print

Hannah Aizenman hails from Birmingham, AL, and is an MFA student in poetry at New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, plain china, Three Rivers Review, and Collision Literary Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn. History, or...

2014 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Kiese Laymon

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 21, 2014 | Archive, Interviews

Interview by CONNOR O’NEILL Black Warrior Review: You published a book of essays and a novel last year–were you working on these simultaneously? How do you decide when to work on NF and when to write fiction? Kiese Laymon: Yeah. I worked on both at the...

2014 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Richard Siken

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 30, 2014 | Archive, Interviews

Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize,  a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana...

2014 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Lily Hoang

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 16, 2014 | Archive, Interviews

Lily Hoang is the author of four books, including Changing, recipient of a PEN Open Books Award. Her choose-your-own adventure love story is forthcoming with 1913 Press. With Blake Butler, she edited 30 Under 30, and with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, she edited The Force...

2013 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Hannah Aizenman

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 2, 2014 | Archive, Interviews

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...