ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis

Mallory SmartDecember 9, 2022

My phone just pinged and Austin Davis says that he’s cool to start the interview we have scheduled today, whenever. Hyped, I jump up from watching Wednesday, to...

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Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

Diana KoleMarch 11, 2022

Rebecca van Laer’s debut novella How to Adjust to the Dark (Long Day Press, 2022) is a hybrid of prose, poetry, and theory, drawing on the psychoanalytic tradit...

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Art for Life’s Sake: An Interview with John Madera, Editor of Big Other

Brendan LorberAugust 13, 2021

Brendan Lorber: Let’s start at the beginning. Big Other’s name conjures up a play on (and distinction from) Orwell’s watchful dictator. It also gestures toward ...

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Exit Tangibility: An Interview with Jamie Marina Lau

Gauraa ShekharOctober 2, 2020

Jamie Marina Lau wrote her debut novel over two months, in a state of trance, at the age of nineteen. The result was Pink Mountain on Locust Island, a rapturou...

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We Avoid Stereotypes by Making Characters More Complex: An Interview with Jenny Bhatt

Jaya WagleSeptember 11, 2020

Jenny Bhatt’s debut short story collection has garnered a lot of attention and praise from critics and reviewers alike. The fifteen short stories in Each of Us ...

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Going Where the Pleasure Is: An Interview with Mary South

Gauraa ShekharAugust 14, 2020

Mary South’s debut collection You Will Never Be Forgotten (FSG Originals, 2020) is a stunning compendium of enormous emotions and imagistic writing. Whether we’...

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“Exposing, exposing, exposing…”An Interview with Allison Cobb

Nikki BarnhartOctober 7, 2017

Allison Cobb is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work includes After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiograph...

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Connection and Connecting with Sommer Browning

Nikki BarnhartMay 13, 2017

Photo courtesy of author Sommer Browning is a poet, comedian and librarian based in Denver. Her poems have appeared in BOMB, Spork, Brooklyn Rail, and more....

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Juggling With Joanna C. Valente

J. BradleyApril 22, 2017

Joanna C. Valente is a ghost who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Joanna is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps P...

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Exploring the Universe with Leyna Krow

Nikki BarnhartApril 15, 2017

  Leyna Krow is a writer based in Spokane, Washington.  Her book of short stories, I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking, was recently published by Feath...

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Playing the Most Dangerous Game With Megan Giddings

Jesse BradleyFebruary 4, 2017

Megan Giddings is a graduate of Indiana University's MFA program in Creative Writing. She isco-Fiction Editor of The Offing. Her chapbooks, Arcade Seventeen...

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Sing the Song with Meredith Alling

Erin TaylorJanuary 14, 2017

Meredith Alling is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her story collection, SING THE SONG, is out now from Future Tense Books (futuretensebooks.com). Her website i...

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Distance & Extinction with Luis Neer

Erin TaylorDecember 31, 2016

Luis Neer is a poet/artist from Chester, West Virginia. Their most recent published works include a debut full-length collection,Extinction (Sad Spell Press, D...

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The Question of You with Laura Theobald

Erin TaylorNovember 19, 2016

Laura Theobald is the author of What My Hair Says About You (Metatron, 2016) and three chapbooks of poetry: Edna Poems (Lame House, 2016), The Best Thing Ever (...

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The Wrong Side of History

Jesse BradleyNovember 12, 2016

John Jodzio's work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney's, and One Story. He's the author of the short story collect...

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Moon Musings with Bob Schofield

Erin TaylorNovember 5, 2016

Bob Schofield is the author and illustrator of The Inevitable June, Moon Facts, and Man Bites Cloud. He lives in Rotterdam. He likes what words and pictures do....

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Fortune Telling and Flash Fiction

Jesse BradleyOctober 29, 2016

Kathy Fish teaches flash fiction for the Mile High MFA program at Regis University in Denver. She has published four collections of short fiction: a chapbook in...

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Natural & Other Disasters with Emily Pinkerton

Erin TaylorSeptember 3, 2016

Raised in the shadow of Houston refineries, Emily Pinkerton currently lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an MFA candidate at San Francisco S...

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Strong Words with Makenzi Miller

Erin TaylorAugust 20, 2016

Makenzi Miller is a young writer and activist based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her debut poetry micro-chapbook, Girl Parts, will be published by Ghost City Press thi...

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Kissing Caves with Alli Simone Defeo

Erin TaylorAugust 13, 2016

alli simone defeo is a traveling poet. They are the founder and co editor of glo worm press, a digital archive and small publishing press. They have a System Of...

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Personal Empowerment with Clementine von Radics

Erin TaylorAugust 6, 2016

Clementine von Radics is writer and the founder of Where Are You Press. She is an internationally touring poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Drea...

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Tweeting About Plants With Yuna Winter

Erin TaylorJuly 23, 2016

Yuna Winter currently works on a transitioning permaculture farm, is very concerned about the future of our world, and writes down a lot of thoughts whenever th...

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Want to work at Maudlin House?

Mallory SmartApril 29, 2016

Yes, you read that correctly! Maudlin House is looking to inject some fresh blood into the press. Our interviews editor, Olivia Olson, is heading off to grad sc...

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Gesturing Toward And Around Intimacy: An Interview with Janice Lee

Olivia OlsonMarch 20, 2016

Janice Lee is a poet, teacher, editor, and a bunch of other stuff. Her new collection, The Sky Isn't Blue, was released last week--more information on that is a...

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Putting Doubt Aside: An Interview with Brittany Swenson

Olivia OlsonFebruary 14, 2016

If you haven't checked out Brittany Swenson's "On Being a Woman," recently published in Maudlin House, now is the time.  We were eager to know more about Britta...

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So Scared: An Interview With Dalton Day

Olivia OlsonJanuary 7, 2016

Dalton Day’s latest collection, Fake Knife, is available now through Freeze Ray Press. Find out more about him at myshoesuntied.tumblr.com   1. How do po...

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What Makes Her Fierce: An Interview With Emily O’Neill

Olivia OlsonDecember 3, 2015

Emily O’Neill has a chapbook coming out from Jellyfish Highway  called You Can’t Pick Your Genre, and some of her work can be found in Maudlin House. We asked h...

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Deconstructing and Destroying: An Interview with Sonya Vatomsky

Olivia OlsonNovember 11, 2015

Sonya Vatomsky’s first full length collection of poems, Salt is for Curing, will be published this month, so we took the opportunity to ask some questions about...

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