Crafting an Award-Winning Story: An Interview with Courtney Zoffness Interview conducted by Scott Ray  In April 2018, Courtney Zoffness won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for her short [...]

Editor's Corner: An Interview with Peter LaBerge of The Adroit Journal Interview conducted by Stevie Edwards Peter LaBerge is a poetry editor wunderkind. He founded The Adroit Journal in 2010 [...]

Editor's Corner: An Interview with Elaina Ellis of Copper Canyon  Interview conducted by Stevie Edwards Elaina Ellis began as an unpaid intern at Copper Canyon in 2012 and has risen [...]

Editor's Corner: An Interview with Jenny Molberg of Pleiades  Interview conducted by Stevie Edwards  For the new “Editor’s Corner” interview series at American Literary Review, our Interviews Editor, Stevie Edwards, [...]

Discovering Something that Already Exists: An Interview with Patrick Madden  Interview conducted by Clinton Crockett Peters Patrick Madden is perhaps the closest thing we have to a Michel de Montaigne, [...]

Writing Humor into an Illness Memoir: An Interview with Mike Scalise Interview conducted by Clinton Crockett Peters Mike Scalise has done the impossible: written an illness memoir, his debut, The Brand New [...]

Regarding, or Disregarding, the Non-Human World: An Interview with Melissa Kwasny  Interview conducted by Stevie Edwards Melissa Kwasny is the author of five books of poetry: Pictograph, The Nine Senses, Reading Novalis [...]

Obsession and Resistance in Poetry: An Interview with Jehanne DuBrow Interview conducted by Sebastian Paramo Jehanne Dubrow is a prolific poet whose work is visceral and rich with the language of [...]

Writing as an Act of Hope: An Interview with Ian McGuire  Interview conducted by: Spencer Hyde Ian McGuire’s third novel, The North Water, was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and [...]

Writing Out of the Worlds You Know: An Interview with Ann McCutchan Interview conducted by Clinton Crockett Peters ​Ann McCutchan is one of those enviable people who has managed two [...]

​2016 Rilke Prize Winner: An Interview With Rick Barot  Interview conducted by Sebastián Páramo Rick Barot has published three books of poetry: The Darker Fall (2002), Want (2008), and Chord [...]