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An interview with Mugabi Byenkya
By Allison Stalberg Siebens In 1991, Leocardia Byenkya underwent an ultrasound that informed her to expect a baby girl. She chose the name Philomena. On January 16, 1992, her baby was born a boy. Filled with shock and surprise, Leocardia named her baby boy Mugabi. Today, Mugabi Byenkya writes for the angsty, confused, Black, Ugandan-Rwandan-Nigerian,…
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An interview with Tiffany Midge
By Allison Stalberg Siebens When a Diné/Navajo child is born, the community holds a ceremony called A’wee Chi’deedloh in honor of a baby’s first laugh, believing it a sign of the child’s transition from spiritual existence to the physical world. With this information close to heart, author and essayist Tiffany Midge argues, how can one…
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An interview with E.M. Anderson
By Allison Stalberg Siebens No one understands why eighty-three-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. Still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. With her son long dead in the Knights’ service, she’s determined to save dragon-fighters like him…
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An interview with Bridgette Dutta Portman
By Allison Stalberg Siebens When neurodivergent teen writer Olive Joshi falls through a portal into her own abandoned story, Olive finds the world in peril. Double suns scorch the planet, the brutal Prince Burnash seeks supreme power, and her perfect protagonist, Coseema, has gone into hiding. Bringing back her heroine might be Olive’s only hope…
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An interview with Camri Kohler
By Allison Stalberg Siebens When twenty-three-year-old surly (and slightly tipsy) Frankie finds her hag of a grandmother dead on the sofa, her best friend, playful Ben Bowen, introduces her to the magical underbelly of Aspen Ridge, Utah. Ben is a witch, a seer to be exact, and he guides Frankie into her new identity as…
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An interview with Amba Elieff
By Allison Stalberg Siebens Amba Elieff spent most of her life a closet poet. Now, she’s put her work out there for all to see in her debut collection, Maiden, Mother, Crone. Each section of her book represents a different stage of her life, from growing up and living in the same Ohio town decades…
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An interview with Julian R. Vaca
By Allison Stalberg Siebens In an alternative 1987, a disease ravages human memories. There is no cure, only artificial recall. The lucky ones, the recollectors, need the treatment only once a day. Freya Izquierdo isn’t lucky. The high school senior is a “degen” who needs artificial recall several times a day. Plagued by blinding half-memories…
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An interview with Clara Olivo
By Allison Stalberg Siebens Clara Olivo’s The Whisper, The Storm and The Light In Between is a poetic memoir of diasporic despair and delight. An autobiographical reflection of the author’s journey as a queer, neurodivergent, disabled woman of color, Olivo’s collection touches on issues of American exceptionalism, race, miscegenation, and cultural memory. We spoke with…
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An interview with Lynn Slaughter
By Allison Stalberg Siebens All of Lynn Slaughter’s books pack an emotional punch. In It Should Have Been You, the young protagonist grapples with survivor’s guilt after the death of her twin. Leisha’s Song takes a look at the tragic fallout from of an abusive childhood. Deadly Setup features a character dealing with the actions…
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An interview with Amanda Cessor
By Allison Stalberg Siebens Twenty-two-year-old Juniper Harlow has always struggled with social anxiety. Oleander Ambrose, her parents’ ward and fellow witch, is an exception to this rule until he returns from a rite of passage older and now seemingly a stranger. Meanwhile, Oleander Ambrose wants nothing more than to make Juniper his wife. He wants…
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