by WaterStone Review | Feb 4, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Samantha M. Sorenson Your work, “How to Eat an Elephant” creatively blends the idea of consuming both information and food. Can you talk about what sparked you to write this piece? The journey of writing “How to Eat an...
by WaterStone Review | Jan 29, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Albert Abonado Your two poems, “Romance” and “Beatitude for an Inventory of Roadkill,” are beautiful works of reclamation and loss. Where did the creation of “Romance” start? I spend my summers helping out at my...
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....