You write some of the funniest and politically incisive tweets out there, such as “I, for one, am looking forward to the first time someone live-tweets their impeachment.” What role does Twitter play in your career? Do you ever prefer it to stand up? First Read More …
The phenomenal success of The Pussyhat Project, which you created after the U.S. Presidential election last year as a way to stop feeling powerless, seems to stem from a refusal to cave in to fear. Do you think fearlessness is vital for creativity? Oh, for Read More …
What has been the most surprising thing about becoming the Editor-in-Chief of The Rumpus? What are you most proud of? What has caught me off-guard the most is how little people want to know about the business of literary communities and literary magazines. There is Read More …
As the executive editor of Unnamed Press, how do you select titles? One of your recent releases, “Blue Money” by Janet Capron, details the real experiences of a NYC prostitute in the 1970s, but it is neither apologetic nor glamorizing of the profession. It’s this Read More …
As America’s oldest advocacy organization for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer-identified and unlabeled people, BiNet USA facilitates the development of a cohesive network of independent bisexual and bi-friendly communities; promotes bisexual and bi-inclusive visibility; and collects and distributes educational information regarding sexual orientation and gender identity Read More …
Seth Fischer’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Guernica, Joyland, Gargoyle, PANK, Best Sex Writing, and other journals and anthologies. His essay work was also selected as notable in The Best American Essays, and he has attended residencies at Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, and Read More …
Yi Shun Lai is an editor and writing coach based out of Southern California. Her debut novel, Not a Self-Help Book: the Misadventures of Marty Wu, is in its fourth printing from Shade Mountain Press. She is the nonfiction editor for the Tahoma Literary Review. Read More …
Rachael Warecki is a native of Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, the Masters Review, Midwestern Gothic, the Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Scripps College and Loyola Marymount University, and holds an MFA in Fiction Read More …
Women Who Submit seeks to empower women writers by creating physical and virtual spaces for sharing information, supporting and encouraging submissions to literary journals, and clarifying the submission and publication process. Ashaki M. Jackson is a social psychologist and poet living in Los Angeles. Read More …
MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), and I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016). Her work Read More …