by WaterStone Review | Jul 15, 2025 | featuredpost
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Marc Nieson Your story “American Standards” involves a man balancing his daily corporate job, his aging mother, and his newish relationship. What sparked the creation of this story? Aptly, this story’s ‘spark’...
by WaterStone Review | Jul 2, 2025 | featuredpost
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 | featuredpost
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 | featuredpost
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 abusive...
by WaterStone Review | Jun 11, 2025 | featuredpost
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 | featuredpost
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...
