by WaterStone Review | Jul 2, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—G C Waldrep Your poems, “Night 410” and “Night 550” are from a work titled Plague Nights. What does Plague Nights entail? As with every other writer and artist I know, the lockdowns of...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 24, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Carla Panciera Your poem “Smart Girls Always Have a Plan” blends math and myth in one of my favorite lines, “Math, after all, is one letter removed / from stories of the gods.” Where did this poem come from? What...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 19, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jana-Lee Germaine “February at the Johnsons’” is about a woman going through a divorce. Where did this poem come from? I was right out of college when I married for the first time. It was a disaster, an...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 11, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Cristina Herrera Mezgravis Where did your inspiration for your fiction piece, “Ninina,” come from? I drew inspiration for “Ninina” from my own relationship with different women in my life—my mother, tías, and abuelas....
by WaterStone Review | Jun 6, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Stephanie Early Green Your fiction piece tells the story of Sabrina, who begins a new job after the trauma of her last one where she was forced into sex work. Where did the idea of “Nojento” come from? Why did you set...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 3, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Sasha (Oleksandra) Lavrenchuk Your poems, “Algae” (Algae untranslated) and “Babylon,” (Babylon untranslated) blend distinctly sharp images with emotion. How have you honed your writing and editing over the years...
