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Category: Interview
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Being That Ocean for One Another: An Interview with Arielle Taitano Lowe
Arielle Taitano Lowe is a CHamoru author born and raised on the island of Guam. Her collection Ocean Mother debuted in March of 2024. She was a 2021-2022 Indigenous Nations Poets Poetry Coalition Fellow and is currently working towards her PhD in English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. On December 10, 2023, I…
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Writing a Memoir and Defining Kuleana: An Interview with T Kira Madden
T Kira Māhealani Madden is an APIA writer who taught as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at UH Mānoa in the spring of 2024, having also taught at Mount Holyoke College and Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founding Editor in Chief of No Tokens, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House,…
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Rediscovering the Forgotten: An Interview with Leanne Dunic
by Alexa Cho Leanne Dunic is a biracial and bisexual multidisciplinary artist. She is the fiction editor at Tahoma Literary Review, a mentor at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, and the leader of the band The Deep Cove. Her most recent project is a book of lyric prose and photographs entitled, Wet (Talonbooks 2024).…
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We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의…
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Remember Us Too: An Interview with Shilpi Suneja
by Chandanie Somwaru I met with Shilpi Suneja on a sunny O’ahu day, where we shared in our love for food, the rhythms of Chutney music, and shared giggles over things our mothers do. Encountering Suneja’s poetic storytelling carried me into a world where it made me wonder about home, about the language we speak…
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