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Interview
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Interview with Cassidy McFadzean
By Emily Brown Cassidy McFadzean was born in Regina and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of Hacker Packer (McClelland &…
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Interview with David Mura
By Jing Jian David Mura is a memoirist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He has written the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire and…
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Interview with Jessica Laser
By Peter Myers Jessica Laser was raised in Chicago. She is the author of Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and the chapbooks Assumed Knowledge and…
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Interview with David Shields
By Cassandra Jensen Writer and filmmaker David Shields has authored twenty-two books, including the groundbreaking Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Vintage Books, 2010)and the award-winning Black…
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Interview with Daisy Hernández
By Victor Resendiz Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of…
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TIR Editor Interview Series: Nicole Migneault
Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate student and poetry co-editor Nicole Migneault answers a few questions about editing and poetry. In your view, what’s the most important…
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“There Is No White Culture in This Country”: An Interview with James Alan McPherson
By Cammy Brothers I was a freshman in college in 1987, when I did the interview that follows as an assignment. The class was “The Literature…
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Terrance Hayes on Shakespeare, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and What Makes a Good MFA
The Author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin in Talks to Jeffrey J. Williams By Jeffrey Williams The following interview appears in the Spring…
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From the Workshop to War: An Interview with Janine di Giovanni
By Christopher Merrill When I was reporting on the war in Bosnia, I always read the dispatches of John Burns, Roger Cohen, and Janine di…