Interviews Archives

March 31, 2020 4 min read

Spotlight on New Queer Literature is a monthly series highlighting publications that are LGBTQIA owned, promote queer and trans writers,...

Dean Kostos on Stopping Mental Health Stigma

Larissa Shmailo

Interviews

March 24, 2020 9 min read

Dean Kostos, poet and educator, anthologist and curator of Greek and Greek-American poetry, editor of the the self-knowing Mama’s Boy. Dean’s...

Lidia Yuknavitch on Creating Impossible Questions

Adam Swanson

Interviews

March 6, 2020 8 min read

"My whole artistic practice is inventing questions for myself that are impossible, and if it’s too easy, I’ll quit." Read More

A Conversation with Alan Pelaez Lopez: A Poet of Queer Liberation

Marrion Johnson

Interviews

March 3, 2020 12 min read

What is so incredible about Alan’s writing, is the life they are able to breathe into poems that cover vitally important topics Read More

Performer Migguel Anggelo on Subverting Clichés to Get to The Truth

Jason Schneiderman

Interviews

January 9, 2020 8 min read

"I strip away all of those 'Latin Lover' clichés to get to who I truly am." Read More

Roz Kaveney on the Potent Sexuality and Humor of an Ancient Roman Poet

Elena Comay del Junco

Interviews

October 28, 2019 7 min read

Catullus, the classic romantic among ancient poets, is also the go-to source for evidence of Roman sexual obscenity Read More

Mfoniso Udofia on Expanding the Canon and Exploring the Queer African Experience

William Johnson

Interviews

October 8, 2019 8 min read

"Underrepresented communities often don’t get to see what joy looks like in the art that portrays them." Read More

LGBTQ Crime Writers on the Future of Queer Crime Fiction

John Copenhaver

Interviews

May 8, 2019 10 min read

"Crime novels have always been social novels, addressing problems in society. In that sense, they’ve always been important and always will." Read More

Jos Charles on Poetry, Alternate Timelines, and the Entertainment Industry

Christopher Soto

Interviews

February 28, 2019 9 min read

"There are other ways to order the world than what the rules of a language may allow." Read More

Spotlight on New Queer Literature: A Conversation with Crab Fat Magazine

Alyssa Greene

Interviews

September 25, 2018 5 min read

"We actively seek poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, and anything that blurs the lines of genre and form." 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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

New Queer Literature: A Conversation with Peculiar, a Queer Literary Journal

Dean Kostos on Stopping Mental Health Stigma

Lidia Yuknavitch on Creating Impossible Questions

A Conversation with Alan Pelaez Lopez: A Poet of Queer Liberation

Performer Migguel Anggelo on Subverting Clichés to Get to The Truth

Roz Kaveney on the Potent Sexuality and Humor of an Ancient Roman Poet

Mfoniso Udofia on Expanding the Canon and Exploring the Queer African Experience

LGBTQ Crime Writers on the Future of Queer Crime Fiction

Jos Charles on Poetry, Alternate Timelines, and the Entertainment Industry

Spotlight on New Queer Literature: A Conversation with Crab Fat Magazine

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