Do you feel that your writing is assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? Does memoir play a role in your...
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Lessons In Refusing Description
N’dee, queer, nonbinary. There is a certain level of difficulty I experience in trying to remember a time when I did not feel anxiety in...

Nepantla’s Queer Women of Color Odes to Literary Ancestors
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color is coming out from Nightboat Books on May 1, 2018, though I originally began editing this...

Where We Go From Here: Writers Who Remember Freedom
You say you are my ally, stand up! Brush yourself off. There is no time for tears, for self-pitying platitudes. There is a rich, racist,...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Michael Wasson
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Because of...

Finding Home Through Literature: A Study of Filipino Fiction
All my life, I felt ashamed because I was born in America. Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, in the nineties, an American, to me,...