author interview Archives

May 15, 2017 7 min read

"I love writing about extremes [...]. I wanted to create characters who were intense, some so much so that it seems like a magical energy." Read More

Chavisa Woods on War, Magical Realism, and Writing Marginalized Characters

Sara Rauch

Interviews

May 6, 2017 26 min read

"I was thinking about all the very specific elements that make up the poor, rural heartland, and I really wanted to paint a full picture of something very uniquely American, these eccentric individuals who feel out of place in their own home" Read More

Rahul Mehta on Pushing Through Writer’s Block and Exploring Pain Through Fiction

Brian Centrone

Interviews

April 16, 2017 17 min read

"I didn't believe in writer’s block until it hit me." Read More

Margaret Randall on Resistance and the Role of Art in the Struggle for Justice

CAConrad

Interviews

March 31, 2017 22 min read

"As writers, I believe we must bear witness. Bear witness in our work to life as we know it, this beautiful life they are doing their best to destroy, erase, and make meaningless." Read More

Alex Gino on Writing Trans Middle-Grade Fiction

Monica Carter

Interviews

March 9, 2017 3 min read

"[...] the issue isn’t really about understanding transgender and gender nonconforming people, so much as it’s about respecting us and trusting us as experts on ourselves." Read More

Gabby Rivera on Writing a Queer Superhero

Edit Team

Interviews

March 4, 2017 5 min read

"Comic writing is a way for me to channel that daydreamy weirdo side and create art." Read More

Melissa Febos: On Writing with Curiosity and Empathy

Rachel M. Simon

Interviews

February 26, 2017 8 min read

"I think in broad strokes, reductively, romantically, generally, and only through writing do I begin to exfoliate my ideas and experiences to get at some more honest, more nuanced meaning." Read More

Tim Jones-Yelvington: On the Joys of Melodrama

M./Maybe Henry Milks

Interviews

February 15, 2017 10 min read

"Outsized emotions and shocking, arbitrary plot twists remind what it feels like to be a rageful, shameful, obsessive and infatuated queer boy." Read More

Kay Ulanday Barrett: On Dancing it Out, Revising Masculinity, and Poetry as Testimony

H. Melt

Interviews

January 10, 2017 12 min read

"I want for people to have some sort of archive of their dance, night, poetry, and art spaces. I want us to remember what keeps/kept us alive when the rainbow flags and assimilation try to steamroll over the complexity of our lives." Read More

Cartoonist Ed Luce on Creating Comics and Promoting Body Positivity

Cathy Camper

Interviews

December 20, 2016 8 min read

"I'm still dedicated to writing and drawing stories that I haven't really seen in comics, especially queer comics, that I think need to exist." Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Daniel Zomparelli on the X-Men, Gay Bars, and Writing Extremes

Chavisa Woods on War, Magical Realism, and Writing Marginalized Characters

Rahul Mehta on Pushing Through Writer’s Block and Exploring Pain Through Fiction

Alex Gino on Writing Trans Middle-Grade Fiction

Gabby Rivera on Writing a Queer Superhero

Melissa Febos: On Writing with Curiosity and Empathy

Tim Jones-Yelvington: On the Joys of Melodrama

Kay Ulanday Barrett: On Dancing it Out, Revising Masculinity, and Poetry as Testimony

Cartoonist Ed Luce on Creating Comics and Promoting Body Positivity

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta