Interview Archives

April 9, 2017 7 min read

"I’m interested in working with and promoting those voices that tend to get overlooked or dismissed, or just haven’t been heard from before." 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

Wrestling with Gods and Monsters: In Conversation with Michael Thomas Ford

Vince Liaguno

Interviews

December 6, 2016 15 min read

"The best horror stories, in my opinion, takes characters and somehow makes their secure worlds suddenly insecure, even deadly. Unfortunately, this is something many queer people can relate to from personal experience." Read More

MB Caschetta: On Her New Book, Getting Published, and Lesbian Sexuality

Sally Bellerose

Interviews

November 8, 2016 6 min read

"I am sorry to report that lesbian sexuality in the mainstream literary world still has a long way to go before it is met with the delight and respect it deserves." Read More

Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation in the Larger Culture

Tennessee Jones

Interviews

October 24, 2016 9 min read

"[...] I long to get outside the ways culture has directed me to see myself, others, and the world." Read More

William Norwich: On Fashion Week and the “Tyranny of the Red Carpet”

Gee Henry

Interviews

October 18, 2016 8 min read

"My Mrs. Brown began as a reaction to the tyranny of the red carpet: meaning, the message of the red carpet is that you are never fully realized unless you are wearing princess gear, dressed for the ballroom. Read More

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Ocean Vuong & Christopher Soto in Conversation

Christopher Soto

Interviews

September 14, 2016 5 min read

"For me that is success, to be able to speak with one another with our best intentions. I always see that as the end goal, to reach humans. Success is when the world becomes a vehicle for the work." Read More

John Chaich: On the Queer Connections to Books and Curating ‘Queering the BibliObject’

Emily Colucci

Interviews

June 19, 2016 10 min read

The exhibition Queering the BibliObject, at New York’s Center for Book Arts until June 25, offers a radically queer investigation of the physicality of books 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

The Queerness of Robots

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

Editor Anna deVries on Promoting Overlooked Voices and Being Out in the Publishing World

Alex Gino on Writing Trans Middle-Grade Fiction

Gabby Rivera on Writing a Queer Superhero

Wrestling with Gods and Monsters: In Conversation with Michael Thomas Ford

MB Caschetta: On Her New Book, Getting Published, and Lesbian Sexuality

Ari Banias: On His New Poetry Collection and Trans Representation in the Larger Culture

William Norwich: On Fashion Week and the “Tyranny of the Red Carpet”

Read an Excerpt from ‘Nepantla Issue #3’: Ocean Vuong & Christopher Soto in Conversation

John Chaich: On the Queer Connections to Books and Curating ‘Queering the BibliObject’

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