Category: Interviews
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Interview with Silas Hansen
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Silas Hansen’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in literary magazines such as The Normal School, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Redivider, and Hobart, featured on Slate and Catapult. He is working on a collection of essays. He is also the nonfiction editor of Waxwing. He is currently directing the…
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Interview With Brittany Means
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Brittany Means was born dead in Indiana, but now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor’s in English from Ball State University prior to that. Her debut memoir, Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways,…
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Interview with Mark Neely
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Jackson Smith (JS): How did the idea for The Broken Plate come about? Why do you think it’s important for Ball State to offer undergraduates a practicum focused on editing and publishing? How does that impact the students, and the Ball State community as a whole? Mark Neely (MN): Ball…
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Interview with J.R. Jamison
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Interview with J.R. Jamison the award-winning and bestselling author of the memoir Hillbilly Queer, and host of the NPR podcast and radio show The Facing Project (recorded and produced at Indiana Public Radio). He is also a founder of the national Facing Project network, a nonprofit in 20 states and over 100 communities…
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Interview with Brandon Buechley
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Brandon Buechley graduated from Ball State University with a major in English/CW in 2015. He spent the fall semester of his senior year living in New York and interning at Guerilla Lit Reading Series and at DAW Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. After graduation, he worked at Cardinal…
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Interview with Elysia Smith
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(Natalee Bohanon): First, can you tell us your origin story of how you came to be the owner of Irvington Books & Vinyl? What drew you to this opportunity? What was it like when you first started the store? How did you get your name out there? (Elysia Smith): I…
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Interview with Alexandria Brown
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Alexandria (Alex) Brown is the co-founder and CEO of Rising Action Publishing Co. Alex has over ten years of experience in marketing and creative writing. Alex has a Bachelor’s in Communications with a major in Public Relations, a Master of Fine Arts—Creative Writing from the University of Gloucestershire, and is…
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Skylar Denman & “Forgotten Memories”
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Skylar Joseph is a photographer from Fort Wayne, Indiana that specializes in music and family photography. As a full-time guitar technician and studio photographer, their time is heavily occupied by day to day work. In their travels they have found therapy in snapping pictures on the road of various subjects. You…
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Rebekah Hoffer & “Something Sweeter”
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Rebekah Hoffer is a double major in creative writing and Spanish who has recently become far too engrossed in crocheting – something to add to the long list of evidence that she’s actually sixty years old, despite appearing twenty-one. Her work has been published in River Teeth Revisited, The Odyssey, and Ball Bearings…
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The Poetry of Bridget Donnellan
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Bridget Donnellan graduated Ball State University in December of 2020 with a double major in creative writing and French and a minor in linguistics. This is her first publication, and she plans on pursuing an MFA in creative writing in the future. In her free time, she likes to hang…
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David Goldstein & “How to Talk to Cops”
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David Goldstein spent eight years as a criminal defense attorney. He reversed more than 60 felony convictions in appellate courts including the Detroit Black Panther shooting of police officers. In the 60s, he did civil rights work in Mississippi with the Reverend Dick Fernandez and also wrote legal briefs for…
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Gladys Justin Carr & “La Immortelle”
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Gladys Justin Carr is an award-winning poet whose work has been published in over 100 literary magazines and journals. She is a recovering publishing executive who dropped out of Korporate Amerika to write full time. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, she was the Nicolson Trustee Fellow at Smith College and…
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Emily Turner & “All That Glitters”
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Emily Turner is a senior at Ball State University, majoring in English studies and minoring in creative as well as professional writing. From a young age, Emily has used reading and writing to express herself. Through her writing, she hopes to deliver her personal truths to her readers. The following…
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An Interview with Eric Obenauf
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Eric Obenauf started Two Dollar Radio in 2005 with his wife, Eliza Wood-Obenauf. Their mission is to reaffirm the cultural and artistic spirit of the publishing industry by publishing bold books that are individually and collectively “too loud to ignore”. They initially ran the press out of their living room before opening…
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An Interview with Jake Skeets
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Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, a National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts.…
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An Interview with Hadley Moore
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Hadley Moore has had fiction published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Witness, Amazon’s Day One, The Alaska Quarterly Review, the revived december, The Indiana Review, Anomaly, Quarter After Eight, Confrontation, The Drum, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and…
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An Interview with Noam Dorr
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Noam Dorr has been published in Gulf Coast, Seneca Review, Passages North, and other places. His essay, “Love Drones,” won the Gulf Coast Essay Prize and was a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2016. Born and raised in Kibbutz Givat Haim, Israel, he is a former Fulbright scholar, and…
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An Interview with Laura Ruby
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Laura Ruby writes fiction for adults, teens, and children. Her most recent book, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All, was named as a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. She is a faculty member of Hamline University’s Masters in Writing for Children Program, and she…
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An Interview with Allison Joseph
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Managing Editor Kimmi Beard had a chance to interview poet and editor Allison Joseph, who will be visiting Ball State for the In Print Fesitval on March 20 and 21. Joseph will be answering questions as part of the publishing panel on Thursday, March 21 at 7:30PM in AJ 175,…
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An Interview with Chen Chen
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Assistant Managing Editor Audrey Bowers had a chance to interview poet Chen Chen, who will be visiting Ball State for the In Print Fesitval on March 20 and 21. Come hear Chen Chen read from his debut poetry collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of…