In our latest Author to Author interview, Chelsea Biondolillo and Heidi Czerwiec get deep about the structural elements of their work: how poetry informs prose, braiding essays, visual essays and more. It’s an English major’s dream of a conversation! Chelsea Biondolillo: Heidi, I was so struck by the decisions you made regarding form in Fluid States, and specifically the way you have applied different poetic forms to your essays. I will admit that before I read your book, I read…

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Both Judith Sara Gelt’s memoir, Reckless Steps Towards Sanity, and Julie Zuckerman’s novel-in-stories, The Book of Jeremiah, deal with Jewish families, and both are being published by small presses, but nearly everything else – the way they began writing, and particularly their paths to publication – were vastly different. They found plenty to talk about, though, and their conversation went on for about five times longer than we have space! Judith: How did you begin writing? Do you have an…

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A conversation between authors can have the delightful familiarity of friends gathering to talk about other friends – the characters in their respective works – and when Elise Levine and Marcia Butler connected, their characters took center stage. If you’re interested in how fictional humans can take on a life of their own in literature, as well as the importance of a well-loved setting, the blending of genres, and much more, you’ll love getting lost in their dialogue. Marcia’s debut novel,…

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Authors Carrie Callaghan and Mieke Eerkens explore the past in differing ways in their most recent books. Mieke’s All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents is a memoir with implications for today, and Carrie’s A Light of Her Own fills in the gaps in the life story of a woman painter at the time of Rembrandt. In their Author to Author conversation, Carrie and Mieke go deep about the risks of memoir and the allure…

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