Conversations

Controlled Decay, Akashic Books, 2008. Gabriela Jauregui was born and raised in Mexico City. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is

At the Drive-In Volcano, Tupelo Press. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano, winner of the Balcones Prize, and Miracle Fruit, which was the winner of the

Causeway, New Issues Press, 2008. Elaine Sexton is also the author of Sleuth (New Issues Press, 2003).  Her recent poems and reviews appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review,

Perhaps the smallest of the small press ventures, though definitely not the least significant, the English-language chapbook has a history that can be traced back to the sixteenth century, when

Now You’re the Enemy, University of Arkansas Press, 2008. James Allen Hall is assistant professor of English at Bethany College in West Virginia. Now You’re the Enemy was a finalist

Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, Bilingual Press, 2008. Daniel A. Olivas is the author of the story collections Devil Talk and Assumption, the novella The

Blind Date with Cavafy, Marsh Hawk Press, 2007. Steve Fellner’s debut collection of poems won the 2006 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Thom Gunn Award for Gay