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 | Aug 26, 2025 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Bill Marsh In your piece “Water Striders,” you emphasize the steps involved “in learning, once again, how to love.” Where did the idea for this piece come from? I wrote the first draft in early...
by WaterStone Review | Feb 4, 2025 | blog: all
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 | Apr 30, 2024 | blog: all
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Michael Levy Your nonfiction piece, “Abscission,” details your grandmother’s life and your relationship with her as she aged. It asks the question what memories we will recall later in life. What prompted you to write...
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...
