by WaterStone Review | Oct 29, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? Believe it or not, the inspiration for “All Saints” came from those sensationalized stories from my youth warning about the dangers of Halloween candy. Though such crimes only happened a few times that...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 22, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your short story in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I thought about this story for a long time before I began writing it. I’ve worked for years—in various roles—in the mental health field, and I’ve always been interested in the family dynamic...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 16, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I dread that day each fall when all color fades to phantom. I wrote this poem with Keats’ ode “To Autumn” as a reference point, but instead of earnestly reveling in fall’s beauty, I decided to approach...
by WaterStone Review | Oct 8, 2018 | blog: all
Tell us about your poems in Volume 20. How did they come to be? There’s Nothing Wrong comes from considering what lying means, and also, as for many white writers, trying to understand through image how privilege works, or doesn’t. I also think about the power that...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 24, 2018 | blog: all
Tell us about your short story in Volume 20. How did it come to be? A few years ago I was working on a play about rape culture—the heinous scourge of sexual violence throughout the world—writing in a variety of voices, exploring fictional characters from vastly...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 17, 2018 | blog: all
1. Tell us about your poem in Volume 20. How did it come to be? I have been thinking and writing (in scholarly ways) about post-9/11 poetry for years, but I could never figure out how to write a poem about that topic. Thinking about the Rapture as an allegory for...
