Conversations

The Fortieth Day, Boa Editions, 2008. Kazim Ali is also the author of The Far Mosque (Alice James Books, 2005) and the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazevox books, 2004). A new

Shadow Mountain, Four Way Books, 2008. Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan was born in Santa Monica and raised in Los Angeles.  She received her B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University in Los

My Daughter’s Eyes and Other Stories, Curbstone Press. Annecy Baez is the winner of the 2007 Curbstone Press Marmol Prize for First Latina Fiction. Her Recent fiction is anthologized in

The Evolution of a Sigh, Hanging Loose Press, 2008. R. Zamora Linmark is the author of Prime Time Apparitions and Rolling the R’s, which he adapted for the stage. He

Blood Ties & Brown Liquor, University of Georgia Press, 2008. A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the

Tongue & Groove, University of Illinois Press. Stephen Cramer’s first book of poetry, Shiva’s Drum, was selected for the National Poetry Series in 2004. His second, Tongue & Groove, was

“Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen,”Sidney Offit’s new memoir, covers some 60 years of American literary life, from encounters with H.L. Mencken in his native Baltimore, where he also recalls meeting

Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, Sarabande Books, 2008. Paula Bohince has received a “Discovery”/ The Nation Award, the Grolier Poetry Prize, residencies from the MacDowell Colony, and the