by WaterStone Review | Oct 29, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Victoria Blanco I love the storytelling in your nonfiction piece “Corn-Yellow Light.” You did a lot of research for this piece. How did you sift through everything to create a narrative? What was the...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 3, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jennifer Militello Your two poems, “Wax Self Portrait/” and “Wax Portrait of a Marriage/” are beautiful short prose pieces. What inspired you to write them? These two pieces are centered...
by WaterStone Review | May 7, 2024 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jenifer Browne Lawrence Your poem from Volume 26, “Reading Alone in a Square Room,” is a tightly-crafted, highly imagistic piece that leaves readers feeling refreshed. What was the inspiration behind this poem? This...
by WaterStone Review | Dec 19, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Ernie Reynolds In your flash fiction, “The Sergeant’s Daughter,” you’ve built a tightly-knit piece that revolves around a man’s relationship with his to-be wife over the course of 10 years, and her father....
by WaterStone Review | Nov 14, 2023 | featuredpost
Congrats on your nonfiction piece “When We Were Boys,” which is featured in The Best American Essays 2023! We were excited to debut it in Water~Stone, and we are thrilled it is getting the recognition it deserves. Can you talk about where this piece started when you...
by WaterStone Review | Sep 26, 2023 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jean McDonough Your nonfiction piece, “Vanishing Point,” expertly braids painting and Cubism techniques, specifically Picasso’s Guernica, with a turbulent childhood, layered within the reality and metaphor of driving....
